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but the thread that binds them is mine own. — Montaigne. 



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CHIEFLY FROM ENGLISH AUTHORS. 



Bx JOHN BARTLETT. 



FOURTH REVISED EDITION. 



BOSTON: 
LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY. 

1866. 



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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1863, by 
John Bartlett, 
in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massa- 
chusetts. 



CAMBRIDGE : 
PRESS-WORK BY JOHN WILSON AND SON. 



PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION. 



The object of this work is to show, to some ex- 
tent, the obligations our language is under to various 
authors for numerous phrases and familiar quota- 
tions which have become " household words." 

This Collection, originally made without any 
view of publication, has been considerably enlarged 
by additions from an English work on a similar 
plan, and is now sent forth with the hope that it 
may be found a convenient book of reference. 

Though perhaps imperfect in some respects, it 
is believed to possess the merit of accuracy, as 
the quotations have been taken from the original 
sources. 

Should this be favorably received, endeavors will 
be made to make it more worthy of the approba- 
tion of the public in a future edition. 

Cambridge, May, 1855. 



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The favor shown to former editions has en- 
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on with the work and make it more worthy. 

It is not easy to determine in all cases the 
degree of familiarity that may belong to phrases 
and sentences which present themselves for ad- 
mission ; for what is familiar to one class of 
readers may be quite new to another. 

Many maxims of the most famous writers of 
our language, and numberless curious and happy 
turns from orators and poets, have knocked at 
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to admit these simply on their own merits, 
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Owing to the great number of Quotations 
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INDEX OF AUTHORS. 



Taoe 
Addison, Joseph, . 179 
Akenside, Mark, . 237 
Aldrich, James, . . 355 
Alonso of Aragon, . 396 
Appius, Claudius, . 393 
Augustine, Saint, .394 

Bacon, Francis, . . 369 
Bailey, Philip James, 354 
Barbauld, Mrs., . . 268 
Barnfield, Richard, . 125 
Barrett, E. Stannard, 365 
Barrington, George, 406 
Basse, "William, . . 160 
Baxter, Richard, . 173 
Beattic, James, . . 255 
Beaumont, Francis, 129 
Berkeley, Bishop, . 215 
Bickerstaff, Isaac, . 183 
Blackstone, William, 378 
Blair, Robert, . . 216 
Bobart, Jacob, . . 406 
Bolingbroke, Lord, 376 
Book of Common 



Prayer, . . . 


26 


Booth, Barton, . 


256 


Bramston, Rev. Mr 


, 401 


Brcreton, Jane, . 


215 


Brougham, Lord, 


389 


Brown, John, 


230 


Brown, Tom, 


176 



Pagik 

Bryant, William C, 356 

Brydges, S. Egerton, 281 

Bunyan, John, . . 173 

Burke, Edmund, . 380 

Burns, Robert, . . 274 

Burton, Robert, . . 394 

Butler, Samuel, . . 161 

Byrom, John, . . 214 

Byron, Lord, . . . 324 

Cambronne, . . . 398 

Campbell, Thomas, 304 

Canning, Geoige, . 281 

Carew, Thomas, . . 129 

Carey, Henry, . . 215 

Centlivre, Mrs., . . 225 
Cervantes, Miguel de, 367 

Charles II., . . . 397 

Choate, llufus, . . 389 

Churchill, Charles, . 256 

Cibbcr, Colley, . . 182 

Coke, Sir Edward, . 370 

Coleridse, S. Taylor, 298 

Collins,""William, . 244 

Colman, George, . 279 

Congreve, AVilliam, 185 

Cornuel, Madame, . 398 

Cotton, Nathaniel, . 245 

Cowley, Abraham, . 137 

Cowper, William, . 257 

Crabbe, George, . 273 



INDEX OF AUTHORS. 





Page 




Page 


Cranch, C. P., . . 


364 


Greville, Mrs., . . 


267 


Crashaw, Richard, . 


135 










Halleck, Fitz-Greene, 357 


Defoe, Daniel, . . 


177 


Heber, Reginald, . 


322 


Dekker, Thomas, . 


136 


Hemans, Felicia, . 


342 


Denham, Sir John, . 


136 


Henry, Patrick, . . 


383 


Dennis, John, . . 


401 


Herbert, George, . 


131 


Dickinson, John, 


280 


Herrick, Robert, . 


133 


Doddridge, Philip, . 


230 


Hervey, Thomas K., 


355 


Dodsley, Robert, . 


230 


Hesiod, 


392 


Donne, Dr. John, . 


126 


Hill, Aaron, . . . 


226 


Drake, J. Rodman, 


342 


Hobbes, Thomas, . 


367 


Dryden, John, . . 


166 


Holmes, Oliver W., 


361 


Dyer, John, . . . 


229 


Holy Scriptures, 


1 


Dyer, , . .' . 


405 


Home, John, . . . 


245 






Hood, Thomas, . . 


346 


Emerson, R. Waldo, 


357 


Hooker, Richard, . 


368 


Emmet, Robert, . . 


386 


Hopkinson, Joseph, 


282 


Erasmus, .... 


402 


Hunt, Leigh, . . . 


341 


Euripides, .... 


392 


Hurd, Richard, . . 


383 


Everett, David, . . 


282 










Irving, "Washington, 


391 


Farquhar, George, . 


214 






Fletcher, Andrew, . 


375 


Johnson, Samuel, . 


231 


Fletcher, John, . . 


129 


Jones, Sir William, 


269 


Fouche, Joseph, . . 


384 


Jonson, Ben, . . 


127 


Francis I., . . . 


397 






Franklin, Benjamin, 


377 


Keats, John, . . . 


343 


Frere, J. Hookam, . 


282 


Kempis, Thomas a, . 


366 


Fuller, Thomas, . . 


374 


Key, Francis S., . 


363 






King, William, . . 


173 


Garrick, David, . . 


237 






Garth, Samuel, . . 


406 


Lamb, Charles, . . 


297 


Gay, John, . . . 


212 


Langhorne, John, . 


268 


Gilford, Richard, . 


177 


Lee, Henry, . . . 


385 


Goldsmith, Oliver, . 


246 


Lee, Nathaniel, . . 


175 


Grafton, Richard, . 


403 


Le Sage, .... 


377 


Gray, Thomas, . . 


238 


L'Estrange, Roger, 


160 


Green, Matthew, . 


225 


Logan, John, . . 


279 


Greene, Albert G., . 


364 


Longfellow, H. W., 


36C 


Greville, Fulke, . . 


125 


Lovelace, Richard, . 


134 



INDEX OF AUTHORS. 



Page 
Lowell, J. Russell, . 3G2 
Lyttelton, Lord, . 234 
Lytton, E. Bulwer, 350 

Macaulay, T. B., . 389 

Mackintosh, Sir J., . 384 
Mallett, David, . . 280 
Marcy, William L., 389 
Marlowe, Christopher, 124 
Mason, William, . 350 
Melchidr, .... 396 
Menander, . . . 402 
Merrick, James, . 273 
Mickle, W. Julius, 267 
Milnes, R. Monckton, 345 
Milton, John, . 140,371 
Miscellaneous, . . 392 
Montague, Lady, . 213 
Montgomery, James, 303 
Montrose, Marquis of, 139 



Page 
Philips, John, . . 237 
Pinckney, Charles C, 385 



Moore, Edward, 


235 


Moore, Thomas, 


315 


More, Hannah, . 


269 


Morris, Charles, 


270 


Morton, Thomas, 


281 


Moss, Thomas, . 


280 


New England Prim 


er, 404 


New Testament, 


. 15 


Newton, Isaac, . 


. 375 


Norris, John, 


176 



Old Testament, . . 1 

Otway, Thomas, . 174 

Overbury, Thomas, 130 

Paine, Thomas, . . 383 

Parker, Marty n, . 391 

Parnell, Thomas, . 211 

Payne, J. Howard, . 345 

Percy, Thomas, . . 253 



Pitt, William, . 


401 


Plutarch, . . . 


393 


Pollok, Robert, . 


344 


Pope, Alexander, 


186 


Pope, Dr. Walter, 


17G 


Porteus, Beilby, . 


255 


Powell, Sir John, 


379 


Prior, Matthew, 


177 


Procter, B. Waller, 


318 


Quarles, Francis, 


131 



Rabelais, Francis, . 366 

Raleigh, Sir Walter, 124 

Rochefoucauld, . . 376 

Rochester, Earl of, . 1 74 

Rogers, Samuel, . 349 

Roland, Madame, . 385 

Roscommon, Earl of, 174 

Rowe, Nicholas, • 185 

Rumbold, Richard, . 376 

Savage, Richard, . 183 

Scott, Sir Walter, . 308 

Selden, John, . . 374 

Sewall, Jonathan M., 323 

Sewell, Dr. George, 183 

Shakspeare, ... 29 
Sheffield, Duke of 

Buckinghamshire, 1 75 

Shelley, Percy B., . 341 

Shcnstohe, William, 236 

Sheridan, R B., . 271 

Shirley, James, . . 135 

Sidney, Sir Philip, . 368 

Smollett, Tobias, . 253 

Southerne, Thomas, 181 

Southey, Robert, . 296 

Spencer, William R., 307 



INDEX OF AUTHORS. 



Spenser, Edmund, . 
Sprague, Charles, . 
Steele, Sir Richard, 
Steers, Miss Fanny, 
Sterne, Lawrence^ . 
Still, Bishop (John), 
Story, Joseph, . . 
Suckling, Sir John, 
Swift, Jonathan, 
Sylvester, Joshua, . 

Tarlton, Richard, . 

Tate and Brady, . . 

Taylor, Henry, . . 

Tennyson, Alfred, . 

Tertullian, . . . 

Theobald, Louis, . 

Thomson, James, . 

Thrale, Mrs., . . . 

Tickell, Thomas, . 

Tourneur, Cyril, . 
Townley, James, 

Trumbull, John, . 

Tuke, Sir Samuel, . 
Tusser, Thomas, 



Page 
27 
359 
378 
365 
379 
123 
323 
132 
184 
125 

183 
26 
354 
351 
393 
182 
227 
266 
211 
364 
280 
270 
226 
123 



Page 

Uhland, John Louis, 364 

Vaughan, Henry, . 160 

Valerius Maximus, 394 

Villars, Marshal, . 399 

Voltaire, .... 400 

Walton, Izaak, . . 371 

Waller, Edmund, . 138 

Walpole, Robert, . 378 

Warburton, Thomas, 396 

Watts, Isaac, . . 224 

Webster, Daniel, . 386 

William of Orange, 398 

Wither, George, . 130 

Wolcot, John . . 267 

Wolfe, Charles, . . 344 

AVoodworth, Samuel, 323 

Wordsworth, William, 283 

Wotton, Sir Henry, 126 

Wrother, Miss, . . 365 



Youn<r, Edward, 



217 



Addenda 481 



FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS. 



HOLY SCRIPTURES. 

It is not good that the man should be alone. 

Gen. ii. 18. 

In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread. 

For dust thou art, and unto dust shalt 

thou return. Gen. iii. 19. 

Am I my brother's keeper ? Gen. iv. 9. 

My punishment is greater than I can bear. 

Gen. iv. 13. 
There were giants in the earth in those days. 

Gen. vi. 4. 

Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his 

blood be shed. Gen. ix. 6. 

In a good old age. Gen. xv. 15. 

His hand will be against every man, and every 
man's hand against him. Gen. xvi. 12. 

Bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the 
grave. Gen. xlii. 38. 



2 OLD TESTAMENT. 

Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel. 

Gen. xlix. 4. 
I have been a stranger in a strange land. 

Ex. ii. 22. 
Unto a land flowing with milk and honey. 

Ex. iii. 8. 
The wife of thy bosom. Deut. xiii. 6, 

Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, 
foot for foot. Dent. xix. 21. 

The secret things belong unto the Lord our 
God. Deut. xxix. 29. 

He kept him as the apple of his eye. 

Deut. xxxii. 10. 
I am going the way of all the earth. 

Josh, xxiii. 14. 
I arose a mother in Israel. Judg. v. 7. 

She brought forth butter in a lordly dish. 

Judg. v. 25 
The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. 

Judg. xvi. 9. 

For whither thou goest, I will go ; and where 

thou lodgest, I will lodge : thy people shall te 

my people, and thy God my God. Ruth i 16, 

A man after his own heart. l Sam. xiii. 14 



OLD TESTAMENT. 3 

Tell it not in Gath ; publish it not in the streets 
of Askelon. 2 Sam. i. 20. 

Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in 
their lives, and in their death they were not 
divided. 2 Sam. i. ^3. 

How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the 
battle ! 2 Sam. i. 25. 

Very pleasant hast thou been unto me : thy 
love to me was wonderful, passing the love of 
women. 2 Sam. i. 26. 

And Nathan said to David, Thou art the man. 

2 Sam. xii. 7. 

And are as water spilt on the ground, which 

cannot be gathered up again. 2 Sam. xiv. 14. 

A proverb and a by-word among all people. 

1 Kings ix. 7. 
How long halt ye between two opinions ? 

1 Kings xviii. 21. 

Behold, there ariseth a little cloud out of the 

sea, like a man's hand. 1 Kings xviii. 44. 

A still, small voice. 1 Kings xix. 12. 

Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast 
himself as he that putteth it off. l Kings xx. 11. 



4 OLD TESTAMENT. 

There is death in the pot. 2 Kings iv. 40. 

And the driving is like the driving of Jehu, the 
son of Nimshi : for he driveth furiously. 

2 Kings ix. 20. 

The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away ; 
blessed be the name of the Lord. Job i. 21. 

There the wicked cease from troubling, and 
there the weary be at rest. Job Hi. 17. 

Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly 
upward. Job v. 7. 

My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle. 

Job vii. 6. 

He shall return no more to his house, neither 

shall his place know him any more.* Job vii. 10. 

I would not live alway. Job vii. 16. 

Miserable comforters are ye all. Job xvi. 2. 

I am escaped with the skin of my teeth. 

Job xix. 20. 



* For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone ; and the place 
thereof shall know it no more. — Psalm ciii. 16. 

Usually quoted, " The place that has known him shall know 
him no more." 



OLD TESTAMENT. 5 

Seeing the root of the matter is found in me. 

Job xix. 28. 
The price of wisdom is ahove rubies. 

Job xxviii. 18. 

I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the 

lame Job xxix. 15. 

Oh . . . that mine adversary had written a book. 

Job xxxi. 35. 

When the morning stars sang together, and all 

the sons of God shouted for joy. Job xxxviii. 7. 

Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further ; and 
here shall thy proud waves be stayed. 

Job xxxviii. 11. 
The sweet influences of Pleiades. 

Job xxxviii. 31. 
The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places. 

Ps. xvi. 6. 
Yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind. 

Ps. xviii. 10. 

He maketh me to lie down in green pastures : he 

leadeth me beside the still waters. Ps. xxiii. 2. 

Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. 

Ps. xxiii. 4. 

1 have been young, and now am old ; yet have 
I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed 
Degging bread. Ps. xxxvii. 25. 



6 OLD TESTAMENT. 

Spreading himself like a green bay-tree. 

Ps. xxxvii. 35. 
Mark the perfect man, and behold the up- 
right. Ps. xxxvii. 37. 

While I was musing the fire burned. 

Ps. xxxix. 3. 
My tongue is the pen of a ready writer. 

Ps. xlr. 1. 
Oh that I had wings like a dove ! Ps. Iv. 6 

They are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her 
ear ; which will not hearken to the voice of charm- 
ers, charming never so wisely. Ps. lviii. 4, 5 

His enemies shall lick the dust. p s . lxxii. 9. 

Mercy and truth are met together : righteous- 
ness and peace have kissed each other. 

Ps. lxxxv. 10. 
"We spend our years as a tale that is told. 

Ps. xc. 9. 

They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken 

man, and are at their wit's end. p s . cvii. 27. 

He giveth his beloved sleep. p s . cxxvii. 2. 

Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for 
brethren to dwell together in unity. p s . cxxxiii. 1. 



OLD TESTAMENT. 7 

We hanged our harps upon the willows. 

Ps. cxxxvii. 2. 

If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand 

forget her cunning. Ps. cxxxvii. 5. 

For I am fearfully and wonderfully made. 

Ps. cxxxix. 14. 

Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her 

paths are peace. Prov. iii. 17. 

Go to the ant, thou sluggard ; consider her ways 
and be wise. Prov. vi. 6. 

Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little fold- 
ing of the hands to sleep. Prov. vi. 10 ; xxiv. 33. 

Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in 
secret is pleasant. Prov. ix. 17. 

In the multitude of counsellors there is safety. 

Prov. xi. 14. 

A righteous man regardeth the life of his 
beast ; but the tender mercies of the wicked 
are cruel. Prov. xii. 10. 

Hope deferred maketh the heart sick. 

Prov. xiii. 12. 
Fools make a mock at sin. Prov. xiv. 9. 

The heart knoweth his own bitterness. 

Prov. xiv. 10 



8 OLD TESTAMENT. 

Righteousness exalteth a nation. Prov. xiv. 34. 

A soft answer turneth away wrath. Prov. xv. 1. 

Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than 
a stalled ox and hatred therewith. Prov. xv. 17. 

Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty 
spirit before a fall. Prov. xvi. 18. 

The hoary head is a crown of glory. 

Prov. xvi. 31. 
A wounded spirit who can bear? Prov. xviii. 14. 

A man that hath friends must show himself 
friendly ; and there is a friend that sticketh closer 
than a brother. Prov. xviii. 24. 

Train up a child in the way he should go ; and 
when he is old, he will not depart from it. 

Prov. xxii. 6. 
For riches certainly make themselves wings. 

Prov. xxiii. 5. 
As he thinketh in his heart, so is he. 

Prov. xxiii. 7. 
Look not thou upon the wine, when it is red : 

when it giveth his color in the cup ; at the 

last it bitet.h like a serpent and stingeth like an 
adder. Prov. xxiii. 31, 32. 



OLD TESTAMENT, 9 

A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in 
pictures of silver. Prov. xxv. 11. 

For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon bis 
head. Prov. xxv. 22. 

As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good 
news from a far country. Prov. xxv. 25. 

There is a Hon in the way; a lion is in the 
streets. Prov. xxvi. 13. 

Boast not thyself of to-morrow ; for thou 
knowest not what a day may bring forth. 

Prov. xxvii. 1. 

Open rebuke is better than secret love. 

Prov. xxvii. 5. 

A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a 

contentious woman are alike. Prov. xxvii. 15. 

The wicked flee when no man pursueth. 

Prov. xxviii. 1. 
Give me neither poverty nor riches. 

Prov. xxx. 8. 

The horse-leech hath two daughters, crying, 

Give, give. Prov. xxx. 15. 

Her children rise up and call her blessed. 

Prov. .(xxl 28. 

There is no new thing under the sun. Eccles. i. 9. 



10 OLD TESTAMENT. 

All is vanity and vexation of spirit. Eccles. i. 14. 

To everything there is a season, and a time to 
every purpose under the heaven. Eccles. iii. 1. 

The sleep of a laboring man is sweet. 

Eccles. v. 12. 
A good name is better than precious oint- 
ment. Eccles. vii. 1. 

It is better to go to the house of mourning than 
to go to the house of feasting. Eccles. vii. 2. 

Be not righteous overmuch. Eccles. vii. 16. 

To eat and to drink and to be merry. 

Eccles. viii. 15. Luke xii. 19. 
For a living dog is better than a dead lion. 

Eccles. ix. 4. 

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with 

thy might. Eccles. ix. 10. 

The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to 
the Strong. Eccles. ix. 11. 

Cast thy bread upon the waters ; for thou shalt 
find it after many days. Eccles. xi. 1. 

In the place where the tree falleth, there it 
Bhall be. Eccles. xi. 3. 



OLD TESTAMENT. 11 

Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it 
is for the eye to behold the sun. Ecdes. xi. 7. 

Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy 
youth. Eccles. xii. 1. 

And the grasshopper shall be a burden. 

Eccles. xii. 5 
Man goeth to his long home. Eccles. xii. 5. 

Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden 
bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the 
fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. 

Eccles. xii. 6. 

Then shall the dust return to the earth as it 
was ; and the spirit shall return unto God who 
gave it. Eccles. xii. 7. 

Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher ; all is 
vanity. Eccles. i. 2; xii. 8. 

Of making many books there is no end ; and 
much study is a weariness of the flesh. 

Eccles. xii. 12. 

For lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and 

gone ; the flowers appear on the earth ; the time 

of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of 

the turtle is heard in our land. 

The Song of Solomon ii. 11, 12. 
The little foxes, that spoil the vines. 

The Song of Solomon ii. 15. 



12 OLD TESTAMENT. 

Terrible as an army with banners. 

The Song of Solomon vi. 10. 
Grind the faces of the poor. h. m. 15. 

To the law and to the testimony. Is. viii. 20. 

The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and 
the leopard shall he down with the kid. Is. xi. 6. 

How art thou fallen from heaven, Lucifer, 
Bon of the morning ! / s . x iv. 12. 

Whose merchants are princes. is. xxiii. 8. 

For precept must be upon precept, precept upon 
precept ; line upon line, line upon line ; here a 
little, and there a little. fa xxviii. 10. 

The desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the 
rose. fa xxxv. 1. 

Set thine house in order. " Is. x xxviii. 1. 

All flesh is grass. 7s. xl. 6 

Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, 
and are counted as the small dust of the balance. 

Is. xl. 15. 

A biiiised reed shall he not break, and the 
sinoking flax shall he not quench. Is. xlii. 3. 



OLD TESTAMENT. 13 

There is no peace, saith the Lord, unto the 
wicked. Is. xlviii. 22. 

He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter. 

7s. liii. 7. 

A little one shall become a thousand, and a small 

one a strong nation. 7s. lx. 22, 

To give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of 
joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the 
spirit of heaviness. 7s. lxi. 3. 

I have trodden the wine-press alone. 7s. lxiii. 3. 

We all do fade as a leaf. 7s. lxiv. 6. 

Peace, peace ; when there is no peace. 

Jer. vi. 14 ; viii. 11. 

Amend your ways and your doings. Jer. vii. 3. 

Is there no balm in Gilead ? is there no phy- 
sician there ? Jer. viii. 22. 

Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the 
leopard his spots ? Jer. xiii. 23. 

As if a wheel had been in the midst of a 
wheel. Ez. x. 10 

The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the 
children's teeth are set on edge. Ez. xviii. 2 



1.4 OLD TESTAMENT, 

Thou art weighed in the balances, and art 
found wanting. Dan. v. 27. 

The thing is true, according to the law of the 
INIedes and Persians, which altereth not. 

Dan. vi. 12, 

For they have sown the wind, and they shall 
reap the whirlwind. Eos. viii, 7. 

And they shall beat their swords into plough- 
shares, and their spears into pruning-hooks. 

Mic. iv. 3. 

But they shall sit every man under his vine and 
under his fig-tree. Mic. iv. 4. 

Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, 
that he may run that readeth it. Bab. ii. 2. 

But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun 
of righteousness arise with healing in his wings. 

Mai. iv. 2. 
For a bird of the air shall carry the voice, 
and that which hath wings shall tell the matter. 

Eccles. x. 20. 

He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled there- 
with. Ecclus. xiii. 1. 

He will laugh thee to scorn. Ecclus. xiii. 7. 

Great is truth and mighty above all things. 

Esd. iv. 51. 



NEW TESTAMENT. 15 

And Nicanor lay dead in his harness. 

1 Mac. xv. 28. 



NEW TESTAMENT. 

Rachel weeping for her children, and would 
not be comforted, because they are not. 

Matt. ii. 18. 
Man shall not live by bread alone. Matt. iv. 4. 

Ye are the salt of the earth : but if the salt 
have lost his savor, wherewith shall it be salted ? 

Matt. v. 13. 

Ye are the light of the world. A city that is 
set on an hill cannot be hid. Matt. v. 14. 

But when thou doest alms, let not thy left hand 
know what thy right hand doeth. Matt. vi. 3. 

Where your treasure is, there will your heart 
be also. Matt. vi. 21 

Ye cannot serve God and Mammon. 

Matt. vi. 24. 

Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow ; 

they toil not, neither do they spin. Matt. vi. 28 



16 NEW TESTAMENT. 

Take therefore no thought for the morrow ; for 
the morrow shall take thought for the things of 
itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. 

Matt. vi. 34. 
Neither east ye your pearls before swine. 

Matt. vii. 6. 

Ask, and it shall be given you ; seek, and ye 

shall find ; knock, and it shall be opened unto 

you. Matt. vii. 7. 

The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air 
have nests ; but the Son of Man hath not where 
to lay his head. Matt. viii. 20. 

The harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers 
are few. Matt. ix. 37. 

Be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless 
as doves. Matt. x. 16. 

But the very hairs of your head are all num- 
bered. Matt. x. 30. 

The tree is known by his fruit. Matt. xii. 33. 

Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth 
speaketh. Matt. xii. 34. 

A prophet is not without honor, save in his own 
country and in his own house. Matt. xiii. 57. 



NEW TESTAMENT. 17 

Be of good cheer : it is I ; be not afraid. 

Matt. xiv. 27. 

And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall 

into the ditch. Matt, xv 14. 

Yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from 
I heir masters' table. Matt. xv. 27. 

Get thee behind me, Satan. Matt. xvi. 23 

For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the 
whole world, and lose his own soul ? Matt. xvi. 26. 

It is good for us to be here. Matt. xvii. 4. 

What therefore God hath joined together let 
not man put asunder. Matt. xix. 6. 

It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of 
a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the 
kingdom of God. Matt. xix. 24. 

Which have borne the burden and heat of the 
day. Matt. xx. 12. 

Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with 
mine own? Matt. xx. 15.. 

For many are called, but few are chosen. 

Matt. xxii. 14. 
2 



18 NEW TESTAMENT. 

Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and 
swallow a camel. ' Matt, xxiii. 24. 

For ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which 
indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within 
full of dead men's bones. Matt, xxiii. 27. 

For wheresoever the carcass is, there will he 
eagles be gathered together. Matt. xxiv. 28. 

Unto every one that hath shall be given, and 
he shall have abundance : but from him that 
hath not shall be taken away even that which 
he hath. Matt. xxv. 29. 

Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temp- 
tation : the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh 
is weak. Mat. xxvi. 41. 

lie that hath ears to hear, let him hear. 

Mark iv. 9 
My name is Legion. Mark v. 9. 

"Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not 
quenched. Mark ix. 44. 

And now also the axe is laid unto the root of 
the trees. Luke ill. 9. 

Physician, heal thyself. Luke iv. 23 



NEW TESTAMENT. 19 

Go, and do thou likewise. Luke x. 37. 

But one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen 
that good part, which shall not be taken away from 
her- Luke x. 42. 

He that is not with me is against me. 

Luke xi. 23. 

And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much 
goods laid up for many years ; take thine ease, eat, 
drink, and be merry. Luke xii. 19. 

Let your loins be girded about, and your lights 
burning. Luke xii. 35. 

For the children of this world are in their gen- 
eration wiser than the children of light. 

Luke xvi. 8. 
It were better for him that a mill-stone were 
hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea. 

Luke xvii. 2. 
Remember Lot's wife. Luke xvii. 32. 

Out of thine own mouth will I judge thee. 

Luke xix. 22. 
Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth? 

John i. 46. 
The wind bloweth where it listeth. John iii. 8 



John v. 35- 



20 NEW TESTAMENT. 

Gather up the fragments that remain, that noth- 
ing be lost. John vi. 12. 

Judge not according to the appearance. 

John vii. 24. 
For the poor always ye have with you. 

John xii. 8. 

"Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness 
come upon you. John xii. 35. 

Let not your heart be troubled. John xiv. 1. 

In my Father's house are many mansions. 

John xiv. 2. 

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man 

lay down his life for his friends. John xv. 13. 

It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks. 

Acts ix. 5. 
Tt is more blessed to give than to receive. 

Acts xx. 35. 

For there is no respect of persons with God. 

- Twin. ii. 11. 

As some affirm that Ave say, Let us do evil that 

good may come. Rom. iii. 8 

For the wages of sin is death. Rom. vi. 23. 

And we know that all things work together foi 
good to them that love God. AW. viii. 28 



NEW TESTAMENT. 21 

A zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. 

Rom. x. 2 
Be not wise in your own conceits. Rom. xii. 16. 

Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him ; if 
he thirst, give him drink : for in so doing thou 
shalt heap coals of fire on his head. Rom. xii. 20. 

Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil 
with good. Rom. xii. 21. 

The powers that be are ordained of God. 

Rom. xiii. 1. 
Render therefore to all their dues. Rom. xiii. 7. 

Love is the fulfilling of the law. Rom. xiii. 10. 

Let every man be fully persuaded in his own 
mind. Rom. xiv. 5. 

I have planted, Apollos watered ; but God gave 
the increase. 1 Cor. iii. 6. 

Every man's work shall be made manifest. 

1 Cor. iii. 13. 

Not to think of men above that which is 

written.* 1 Cor. iv. 6. 

Absent in body, but present in spirit. 1 Cor. v. 3. 
* Always quoted, " to be icise above that which is written." 



22 NEW TESTAMENT. 

Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the 
whole lump ? 1 Cor. v. 6 

For the fashion of this world passeth away. 

1 Cor. vii. 81. 
I am made all things to all men. l Cor. ix. 22 



Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth 
take heed lest he fall. l Cor. x. 12. 

As sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. 

1 Cor. xiii. 1. 
When I was a child, I spake as a child. 

1 Cor. xiii. 11. 
For now we see through a glass, darkly. 

1 Cor. xiii. 12. 

Be not deceived : evil communications corrupt 

good maimers.* 1 Cor. xv. 33. 

The first man is of the earth, earthy. 

1 Cor. xv. 47. 
In the twinkling of an eye. l Cor. xv. 52. 

O death, where is thy sting ? grave, where 
is thy victory ? 1 Cor. xv. 55- 

* Qdeipovoiv j/&7j xpV a &' ofii/.iai Kauai. — Mexaxdeh. f 
"Bonos coirumpunt mores congressns irmli." 

Tektullian, Ad Uxorem, Lib. I. c. 8. 
t Diihner's edition of his Fragments, appended to Aris- 
tophanes in Didot's Bibliotheca Grseca, p. 102, 1. 102. 



NEW TESTAMENT. 23 

Not of the letter, but of the spirit ; for the let- 
ter killeth, but the spirit giveth life. 2 Cor. iii. G. 

We walk by faith, not by sight. 2 Cor. v. 7. 

Behold, now is the accepted time. 2 Cor. vi. 2. 

By evil report and good report. 2 Cor. vi. 8. 

For every man shall bear his own burden. 

Gal. vi. 5. 

Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also 

reap. Gal. vi. 7. 

Be ye angry, and sin not : let not the sun go 
down upon your wrath. Eph. iv. 26. 

Whose -God is their belly, and whose glory is 
in their shame. Phil, iii. 19. 

For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. 

Phil. i. 21. 
Touch not ; taste not ; handle not. Col. ii. 21. 

Remembering without censing your work of 
faith, and labor of love. 1 Tliess. i. 3. 

Prove all things ; hold fast that which is good. 

1 Tkess. v. 21. 

Not greedy of filthy lucre. 1 Tim. iii. 3. 



24 NEW TESTAMENT. 

The laborer is worthy of his reward.* 

1 Tim. v. 18. 

Drink no longer water, but use a little wine Jor 

thy stomach's sake. 1 Tim. v. 23 

For the love of money is the root of all evil. 

1 Tim. vi. 10 
Science falsely so called. 1 2V/n. vi. 20. 

I have fought a good fight, I have finished my 
course, I have kept the faith. 2 Tim. iv. 7. 

Unto the pure, all things are pure. Titus i. 15. 

Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, 
the evidence of things not seen. Heb. xi. 1. 

Of whom the world was not worthy. Heb. xi. 38. 

A cloud of witnesses. Heb. xii. 1. 

For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth. 

Heb. xii. 6 

Be not forgetful to entertain strangers, for 

thereby some have entertained angels unawares. 

Heb. xiii. 2. 

Blessed is the man that endureth temptation ; 

for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown 

of life. James i. 12. 

* The laborer is worthy of his hire. — Luke x. 7. 



NEW TESTAMENT. 25 

Behold, how great a matter a little fire kin- 
dleth ! James iii. 5. 

Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 

James \\. 7 

Charity shall cover the multitude of sins. 

1 Peter iv. 8, 

Be sober, be vigilant ; because your adversary, 
the Devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seek- 
ing whom he may devour. 1 Peter v. 8. 

But the day of the Lord will come as a thief 
in the night.* 2 Peter iii. 10. 

There is no fear in love ; but perfect love 
casteth out fear. 1 John iv. 18. 

Be thou faithful unto death. Eev. ii. 10. 

He shall rule them with a rod of iron. 

Rev. ii. 27. 

I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the 

end, the first and the last. R ev . xxii. 13. 



26 BOOK OB COMMON PRAYER. 



BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER. 

We have left undone those things which we 
ought to have done ; and we have done those 
things which we ought not to have done. 

Morning Prayer. 

The iron entered into his soul. p s . cv. 18. 

Read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest. 

Collect fur the Second Sunday in Advent. 
In the midst of life we are in death.* 

The Burial Service. 
Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust. 

Ibid. 



And though he promise to his loss, 
He makes his promise good. 

Tate and Brady. — Ps. xv. 5. 

* This is derived from a Latin Antiphon, said to have been 
composed by Xotker, a monk of St. Gall, in 911, while watch- 
ing some workmen building a bridge at Martinsbriicke, in peril 
of their lives. It forms the ground-work of Luther's Anti- 
phon De Morte. 



27 



EDMUND SPENSER. 1553-1599. 
FAERIE QUEENE. 

The noblest mind the best contentment has. 

Book i. Canto i. St. 35. 

Her angels face, 
As the great eye of heaven, shyned bright, 
And made a sunshine hi the shady place. 

Book i. Canto iii. St. 4. 
Entire affection hateth nicer hands. 

Book i. Canto viii. St. 40. 
That darksome cave they enter, where they find 
That cursed man, low sitting on the ground, 
Musing full sadly in his sullein mind. 

Book i. Canto ix. St. 35. 
No daintie flowre or herbe that growes on grownd, 
No arborett with painted blossoms drest 
And smelling sweete, but there it might be fownd 
To bud out faire, and throwe her sweete smels al 
arownd. Book ii. Canto vi. St. 12. 

Her berth was of the wombe of morning dew, 
And her conception of the joyous prime. 

Book iii. Canto vL St. 3. 

Dan Chaucer, well of English undefyled. 

Book iv. Canto ii. St. 32, 

"What more felicitie can fall to creature 

Than to enjoy delight with libertie, 

And to be lord of all the workes of Nature, 



28 SPEXSER. 

To mine in th' aire from earth to highest skie, 
To feed on flowres and weeds of glorious feature. 
The Fate of the Butterfly. Line 209. 
J was promised on a time 
To have reason for my rhyme ; 
From that time unto this season, 
1 received nor rhyme nor reason.* 

Lines on his promised Pensici. 

For of the soul the body form doth take, 

For soul is form, and dotli the body make. 

Hymn in Honor of Beauty. Line 132. 

A sweet attractive kinde of grace, 

A full assurance given by lookes, 

Continuall comfort in a face 

The lineaments of gospel-books. 

Elegiac on a Friend's Passion for his Astrophe!l.\ 
Full little knowest tho\i that hast not tride, 
What hell it is in suing long to bide ; 
To loose good dayes that might be better spent, 
To wast long nights in pensive discontent ; 
To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow ; 
To feed on hope, to pine with feare and sorrow. 

To fret thy soule with crosses and with cares ; 
To cate thy heart tlu-ough comfortlesse dispaires ; 
To fawne, to crowche, to waite, to ride, to ronne, 
To spend, to give, to want, to be undonne. 

Motlier Hubberd's Tale. Line 895. 

* See Proverbs; page 409. 

t Todd has shown that this poem was written by Mathew 
Roydou. 



SHAKSPEARE. 20 

SHAKSPEAKE. 1564-1616. 
TEMPEST. 

My library 
Was dukedom large enough. Act i. Sc. 2 

From the still-vexed Bermoothes. Act i. Sc. 2. 

I will be correspondent to command, 

And do my spriting gently. Act i. Sc. 2. 

Full fathom five thy father lies ; 
Of his bones are coral made ; 
Those are pearls that were his eyes ; 

Nothing of him that doth fade, 
But doth sutler a sea-change 
Into something rich and strange. 

Act i. Sc. 2. 
There's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple : 
If the ill spirit have so fair a house, 
Good things will strive to dwell with 't. 

Act i. Sc. 2. 
A very ancient and fish-like smell. Act ii. Sc. 2. 

Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows. 

Act ii. Sc. 2. 
Fer. Here 's my hand. 
Mir. And mine, with my heart in it. 

Act iii. Sc. 1 



30 SEAKSPEARE. 

Deeper than e'er plummet sounded. Act hi. Sc 3. 

Our revels now are ended : these our actors, 

As I foretold you, were all spirits, and 

Are melted into air, into thin air : 

And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, 

The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, 

The solemn temples, the great globe itself, 

Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, 

And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, 

Leave not a wreck behind. We are such stuff 

As dreams are made on ; and our little life 

Is rounded with a sleep. Act iv. Sc. 1. 

Deeper than did ever plummet sound, 

I '11 drown my book. Act v. Sc. 1. 

Where the bee sucks, there suck I ; 

In a cowslip's bell I lie. Ad v. Sc. 1. 



TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA. 

Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits. 

Act i. Sc. 1. 

I have no other but a woman's reason ; I think 

him so, because I think him so. Act i. Sc. 2. 

0, how this spring of love resembleth 

The uncertain glory of an April day. Act i. Sc. 3. 



SHAKSPEARE. 81 

He makes sweet music with tli' enamel'd stones, 

Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge 

He overtaketh in his pilgrimage. Act ii. 3c 7 

That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man, 
If with his tongue he cannot win a woman. 

Act iii. Sc. 1. 
Except I be by Sylvia in the night, 



Is she not passing fair ? Act iv. Sc. 4. 

How use doth breed a habit in a man. Act v. Sc. 4. 

COMEDY OF ERRORS. 

One Pinch ; a hungry lean-faced villain, 

A mere anatomy. Ad v. Sc. 1. 

A needy, hollow-eyed, sharp-looking wretch, 

A living dead man. Act v. Sc. 1. 

MERRY WIVES OF AVINDSOR. 

All his successors, gone before him, have 
done't; and all his ancestors, that come aftei 
him, may. Act i. Sc. 1 

It is a familiar beast to man, and signifies — love. 

Act i. Sc. 1. 



32 SHAKSPEARE. 

Mine host of the Garter. Act i. Sc. 1. 

Convey, the wise it call. Steal ! foh ! a fico for 
the phrase ! Act i. Sc. 3. 

The humor of it. Act ii. Sc. 1 

Faith, thou hast some crotchets in thy head now. 

Act ii. Sc 1. 
Why, then the world's mine oyster, 
Which I with sword will open. Act ii. Sc. 2. 

Oh, what a world of vile ill-favored faults 
Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year. 

Act iii. Sc. 4. 

I have a kind of alacrity in sinking. Act iii. Sc. 5. 

The rankest compound of villanous smell, that 
ever offended nostril. Act iii. Sc. 5. 

A man of my kidney. Act iii. Sc. 5. 

Think of that, Master Brook. Act iii. Sc. 5. 

In his old luncs again. Act iv. Sc. 2. 

They say there is divinity in odd numbers, 
either in nativity, chance, or death. Act v. Sc. 1. 



SHAKSPEARE . 



MEASURE FOR MEASURE. 

Thyself and thy belongings 
Are not thine own so proper, as to waste 
Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee. 
Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, 
Not light them for themselves : for if our virtues 
Did not go forth of us, 't were all alike 
As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely 

touched, 
But to fine issues ; nor Nature never lends 
The smallest scruple of her excellence, 
But, like a thrifty goddess, she determines 
Herself the glory of a creditor, 
Both thanks and use. Act i. Sc. 1. 

I hold you as a thing enskyed and sainted. 

Act i. Sc. 5 
Our doubts are traitors, 
And make us lose the good we oft might win, 
By fearing to attempt. Act i. Sc. 5. 

The jury, passing on the prisoner's life, 
May in the sworn twelve have a thief or two 
Guiltier than him they try. Act ii. Sc. 1. 

This will last out a night in Russia, 

When nights are longest there. Act ii. Sc. 1. 

Condemn the fault, but not the actor of it. 

Act ii. Sc. 2. 
3 



34 SEAKSPEARE. 

No ceremony that to great ones 'longs, 

Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, 

The marshal's truncheon, nor the judge's robe, 

Become them with one half so good a grace, 

As mercy does. Act ii. Sc 2. 

Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once ; 
And he that might the vantage best have took, 
Found out the remedy. Act ii Sc. 2. 

0, it is excellent 
To have a giant's strength ; but it is tyrannous 
To use it like a giant. Act ii. Sc. 2. 

But man, proud man, 
Dress'd in a little brief authority, 
Most ignorant of what he 's most assured, 
His glassy essence, — like an angry ape, 
Plays such fantastic tricks before high Heaven, 
As make the angels weep. Act ii. Sc. 2. 

That in the captain 's but a choleric word. 
Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy. 

Act ii. Sc. 2. 
The miserable have no other medicine, 
But only hope. Act iii. Sc. 1, 

Servile to all the skyey influences. Act iii Sc. 1 

Palsied eld. Act iii. Sc. 1 



SHAKSPEARE. 35 

The sense of death is most in apprehension ; 
And the poor beetle, that, we tread upon, 
In corporal sufferance finds a pang as gree + 
As when a giant dies. Act iii. Sc. 1. 

Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; 

To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot : 

This sensible warm motion to become 

A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit 

To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside 

In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice ; 

To be imprison'd in the vieAvless winds 

And blown with restless violence round about 

The pendent world. Act iii. Sc. 1. 

The weariest and most loathed worldly life, 
That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment 
Can lay on nature, is a paradise 
To what we fear of death. Act iii. Sc. 1. 

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful. 

Act iii. Sc. 1. 
Take, take those lips away, 

That so sweetly were forsworn ; 
And those eyes, the break of day, 

Lights that do mislead the morn ; 
But my kisses bring again, bring again, 

Seals of Love, but sealed in vain, sealed in vain.* 

Act iv. Sc. 1. 

* This song is found in " The Bloody Brother, or Bollo, 
Duke of Normandy," by Beaumont and Fletcher, Act v. Sc. 



36 SHAKSPEARE. 

Every true man's apparel fits your thief. 

Act iv. Sc 2 
'Gainst the tooth of time 
And razure of oblivion. Act v. Sc. 1 

My business in this state 
Made me a looker-on here in Vienna. Act v. Sc L 

They say, best men are moulded out of faults. 

Act v. Sc. 1. 

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING. 

He hath indeed better bettered expectation. 

Act i. Sc. 1. 
A very valiant trencherman. Act i. Sc. 1. 

A skirmish of wit between them. Act i. Sc. 1. 

As merry as the day is long. Act ii. Sc. 1. 

Friendship is constant in all other things, 

Save in the office and affairs of love. 

Therefore, all hearts in love use their own tongues ; 

Let every eye negotiate for itself, 

And trust no agent. Act ii. Sc 1. 

Silence is the perfectest herald of joy ; I were 
but little happy, if I could say how much. 

Act ii. Sc 1. 
2, with an additional stanza. There has been much contro- 
versy about the authorship, but the more probable opinion 
seems to be that the second stanza was added by Fletcher 



SHAKSPEARE. 37 

Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more ; 

Men were deceivers ever ; 
One foot in sea, and one on shore ; 
To one thing constant never. 

Act ii. Sc. 3. 
Sits the wind in that corner ? Act ii. Sc. 3. 

Shall quips, and sentences, and these paper 
bullets of the brain, awe a man from the career 
of his humor ? Act ii. Sc. 3. 

No : the world must be peopled. Act ii. Sc. 3. 

When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not 
think I should live till I were married. 

Act ii. Sc. 3. 

Some, Cupid kills with arrows, some with 
traps. Act iii. Sc. 1. 

Every one can master a grief, but he that has it. 

Act iii. Sc. 2. 
Are you good men and true ? An iii. Sc. 3. 

To be a well-favored man is the gift of fortune ; 
but to write and read comes by nature. 

Act iii. Sc. 3. 

The fashion wears out more apparel than the 
man. Act iii. Sc. 3. 

Is most tolerable, and not to be endured. 

Act iii. Sc. 3. 



88 SHAKSPEARE. 

Comparisons are odorous. Act iii. Sc. 5 

A good old man, sir ; he will be talking. 

Act iii. Sc. 5. 
O, what men dare do ! what men may do ! 
What men daily do ! not knowing what they do. 

Act iv. Sc. 1 
I have marked 
A thousand blushing apparitions start 
Into her face ; a thousand innocent shames, 
In angel whiteness, bear away those blushes. 

Act iv. Sc. 1, 
The idea of her life shall sweetly creep 
Into his study of imagination. Act iv. Sc. 1. 

Into the eye and prospect of his soul. Act iv. Sc. 1. 

Flat burglary, as ever was committed. 

Act iv. Sc. 2. 
O that he were here to write me down — an ass. 

Act iv. Sc. 2. 

A fellow that hath had losses ; and one that 

hath two gowns, and everything handsome about 

him. • Act iv. Sc. 2. 

'Tis all men's office to speak patience 
To those that wring under the load of sorrow ; 
But no man's virtue, nor sufficiency, 
To be so moral, when he shall endure 
The like himself. Act v. Sc. 1. 



SEAKSPEAhE. 39 

For there was never yet philosopher 
That could endure the toothache patiently. 

Act v. Sc. 1. 
I was not born under a rhyming planet. Act v. Sc. 2. 

Done to death by slanderous tongues. Act v. Sc. 3. 



MIDSUMMER NIGHT S DREAM. 

But earthlier happy is the rose distilled, 

Than that which, withering on the virgin thorn, 

Grows, lives, and dies, in single blessedness. 

Act i. Sc. 1. 
For aught that ever I could read, 
Could ever hear by tale or history, 
The course of true love never did run smooth. 

Act i. Sc. 1. 
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, 
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. 

Act i. Sc. 1. 
Masters, spread yourselves. Act i. Sc. 2. 

This is Ercles' vein. Act i. Sc. 2. 

I will roar you as gently as any sucking dove ; 
I will roar you an 't were any nightingale. 

Act i. Sc. 2. 
A proper man, as one shall see in a summer's day. 

Act i. Sc. 2. 

And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, 
To hear the sea-maid's music. Act ii. Sc. 2. 



40 SHAKSPEARE. 

In maiden meditation, fancy free. Act ii. Sc. 2, 

I'll put a girdle round about the earth, 

In forty minutes. Act ii. Sc. 2. 

I know a bank, whereon the wild thyme blows, 
Where ox-lips and the nodding violet grows. 

Act ii. Sc. 2. 
A lion among ladies, is a most dreadful thing. 

Act iii. Sc. 1. 
Bless thee Bottom ! bless thee ! thou art translated. 

Act iii. Sc. 1. 
So we grew together, 
Like to a double cherry, seeming parted. 

Act iii. Sc. 2. 
I have an exposition of sleep come upon me. 

Act iv. Sc. 1. 
The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, 
Are of imagination all compact. Act iv. Sc. 1. 

The lover, all as frantic, 
Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt. 
The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, 
Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to 

heaven, 
And as imagination bodies forth 
The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen 
Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing 
A local habitation, and a name. Act v. Sc. 1. 

The best in this kind are but shadows. Act v. Sc. 1. 



SHAKSPEARE. 41 



LOVES LABORS LOST. 

Light, seeking light, doth light of light heguile. 

Act i. Sc. 1. 
Small have continual plodders ever won, 
Save base authority from other's books. 
These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights, 
That give a name to every fixed star, 
Have no more profit of their shining nights 
Than those that walk and wot not what they 
are. Act i. Sc. 1. 

That unlettered, small-knowing soul. Act i. Sc. 1. 

A child of our grandmother Eve, a female ; 
Or, for thy more sweet understanding, a woman. 

Act i. Sc. 1. 
The rational hind Costard. Act i Sc. 2 

Devise, wit ; write, pen ; for I am for whole 
volumes in folio. Act i. Sc. 2. 

A merrier man, 
Within the limit of becoming mirth, 
I never spent an hour's talk withal. Act ii. Sc, 1. 

So sweet and voluble is his discourse. 

Act ii. Sc. 1. 
A very beadle to a humorous sigh. Act iii. Sc. 1. 



42 SEAKSPEARE. 

This senior-junior, giant-dwarf, Dan Cupid : 
Regent of love-rhymes, lord of folded arms, 
The anointed sovereign of sighs and groans, 
Liege of all loiterers and malcontents. Act iii. Sc. 1, 

He hath never fed of the dainties that are bred 
in a book. Act iv. Sc. 2. 

Dictynna, good-man Dull. Act iv. Sc. 2. 

These are begot in the ventricle of memory, 
nourished in the womb of pia mater, and deliv- 
ered upon the mellowing of occasion. Act iv. Sc. 2. 

For where is any author in the world, 
Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye ? 
Learning is but an adjunct to ourself. 

Act iv. Sc. 3. 
It adds a precious seeing to the eye. Act iv. Sc. 3. 

As sweet, and musical, 
As bright Apollo's lute, strung with his hair ; 
And, when love speaks, the voice of all the gods 
Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony. 

Act iv. Sc. 3. 

They have been at a great feast of languages, 

and stolen the scraps. Act v. Sc. 1 

He draweth out the thread of his verbosity 
finer than the staple of his argument. 

Act v. Sc. 1. 



SHAKSPEARE. 43 

In the posteriors of this day; which the rude 
multitude call the afternoon. Act v. Sc. 1. 

They have measured many a mile, 
To tread a measure with you on this grass. 

Ad v. Sc 2. 
A jest's prosperity lies in the ear 
Of him that hears it, never in the tongue 
Of him that makes it. Act v. Sc. 2 

When daisies pied, and violets Hue, 
And lady-smocks all silver white, 

And cuckoo buds of yellow hue, 
Do paint the meadows with delight. 

Act v. Sc. 2. 



MERCHANT OF VENICE. 

Now, by two-headed Janus, 
Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time. 

Act i. Sc. i. 
Though Nestor swear the jest be laughable. 

Act i. Sc. 1. 
You have too much respect upon the world : 
They lose it, that do buy it with much care. 

Act i. Sc. I. 
I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano ; 
A stage, where every man must play a part, 
And mine a sad one. Act i. Sc. 1. 



44 SHAKSPEARE. 

Why should a man, whose blood is warm within, 
Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster ? 

Act i. Sc. 1. 
I am Sir Oracle, 
And when I ope my lips, let no dog bark ! 

Act i. Sc. 1. 
Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing; 
more than any man in all Venice. His reasons 
are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of 
chaff: you shall seek all day ere you find them : 
and, when you have them, they are not worth the 
search. Act i. Sc. 1. 

God made him, and therefore let him pass for 
a man. Act i. Sc. 2 

Ships are but boards, sailors but men ; there be 
land-rats, and water-rats, land-thieves, and water- 
thieves. Act \ Sc. 3. 

I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him. 

Act i. Sc. 3. 
Even there, where merchants most do congre- 
gate. Act i. Sc. 3 

The devil can cite scripture for his purpose. 

Act i. Sc. 3. 
A goodly apple rotten at the heart ; 
0, what a goodly outside falsehood hath ! 

Act i. Sc. 3 



SHAKSPEAKE. 45 

Many a time, and oft, 
In the Kialto, you have rated me. Act i. Sc. 3. 

Sufferance is the badge of all our tribe. 

Act i. Sc. 3. 
In a bondman's key, 
With 'bated breath, and whispering humbleness. 

Act i. Sc. 3. 
It is a wise father that knows his own child. 

Act ii. Sc. 2. 

Vile squeaking of the wry-necked fife. Act ii. Sc. 5. 

All things that are, 
Are with more spirit chased than enjoyed. 

Act ii. Sc. 6, 

I am a Jew : hath not a Jew eyes ? hath not a 

Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, 

passions ? Act iii. Sc. 1. 

Thus when I shun Scylla, your father, I fall 
into Charybdis, your mother.* Act iii. Sc. 5. 

"What ! wouldst thou have a serpent sting thee 
twice ? Act iv. Sc. 1. 

The quality of mercy is not strained ; 
' It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven 
Upon the place beneath ; it is twice blessed ; 

* Jncidis in Scyllam cupiens vitare Charybdim. 

Philippe Gualtiek, (12 century,) Darius. Book v. 



46 SHAKSPEABE. 

It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes. 

'Tis mightiest in the mightiest ; it becomes 

The throned monarch better than his crown : 

His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, 

The attribute to awe and majesty, 

Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings , 

But mercy is above this sceptred sway ; 

It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, 

It is an attribute to God himself, 

And earthly power doth then show likest God's, 

When mercy seasons justice. Therefore, Jew, 

Though justice be thy plea, consider this, — 

That in the course of justice, none of us 

Should see salvation ; we do pray for mercy ; 

And that same prayer doth teach us all to 

render 
The deeds of mercy. Act iv. Sc. 1. 

You take my house, when you do take the prop 
That doth sustain my house ; you take my life, 
When you do take the means whereby I live. 

Act iv. Sc. 1. 
A Daniel come to judgment. Act iv. Sc. 1. 

Is it so nominated in the bond ? Act iv. Sc. 1. 

I have thee on the hip. Act iv. Sc. 1. 

I thank thee, Jew, for teaching me that word. 

Act iv. Sc. 1. 



SRAKSPEARE. 47 

He is well paid, that is well satisfied. 

Act iv. Sc. 1. 
How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank ! 

Act v. Sc. I. 
Look, how the floor of Heaven 
Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold. 
There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st, 
But in his motion like an angel sings, 
Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubims : 
Such harmony is in immortal souls ; 
But, whilst this muddy vesture of decay 
Doth grossly close it in, we caimot hear it. 

Act v. Sc. 1. 
I am never merry when I hear sweet music. 

Act v. Sc. I. 
The man that hath no music in himself, 
Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, 
Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils ; 
The motions of his spirit are dull as night, 
And his affections dark as Erebus : 
Let no such man be trusted. Act v. Sc. 1. 

How far that little candle throws his beams ! 
So shines a good deed in a naughty world. 

Act v. Sc. 1 

AS YOU LIKE IT. 

Well said : that was laid on with a trowel. 

Act i. Sc. 2. 
My pride fell with my fortunes. Act i. Sc. 2- 



48 SHAKSPEARE. 

Gel. Not a word ? 

Ros. Not one to throw at a dog. Act i. Sc. 3. 

how full of briars is this working-day world ! 

Act i. Sc 3. 
We'll have a swashing and a martial outside. 

Act i. Sc. 3. 
Sweet are the uses of adversity, 
Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, 
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head ; 
And this our life, exempt from public haunt, 
Finds tongues in trees, books in the running 

brooks, 
Sermons in stones, and good in everything. 

Act ii. Sc. 1. 
The big round tears 
Cours'd one another down his innocent nose 
In piteous chase. Act ii. Sc. 1. 

" Poor deer," quoth he, " thou mak'st a testament, 

As worldlings do, giving thy sum of more 

To that which hath too much." Act ii. Sc. 1. 

And he that doth the ravens feed, 
Yea, providently caters for the sparrow, 
Be comfort to my age ! Act ii. Sc. 3. 

For in my youth I never did apply 
Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood. 

Act ii. Sc. 3 



SHAKSPEARE. 49 

Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, 

Frosty, but kindly. Act ii. Sc. 3. 

O good old man ; how well in thee appears 
The constant service of the antique world, 
When service sweat for duty, not for meed ! 
Thou art not for the fashion of these times, 
When none will sweat, but for promotion. 

Act ii. Sc 3. 
And railed on lady Fortune in good terms, 
In good set terms. Act ii. Sc. 7. 

And looking on it with lack-lustre eye, 
Says, very wisely, " It is ten o'clock." 
" Thus we may see," quoth he, " how the Avorld 
wags." Act ii. Sc. 7. 

" And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, 
And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot, 
And thereby hangs a tale." Act ii. Sc. 7. 

My lungs began to crow like chanticleer. 

Act ii. Sc. 7. 
Motley's the only wear. Act ii. Sc. 7. 

If ladies be but young and fair, 
They have the gift to know it ; and in his brain, 
Which is as dry as the remainder biscuit 
After a voyage, he hath strange places crammed 
With observation. Act ii. Sc. 7. 

4 



50 SHAKSPEARE. 

I must have liberty 
Withal, as large a charter as the wind, 
To blow on whom I please. Act ii. Sc. 7 

The why is plain as way to parish church. 

Act ii. Sr. 7. 
All the world's a stage 
And all the men and women merely players : 
They have their exits and their entrances ; 
And one man in his time plays many parts. 
His acts being seven ages. At first, the infant, 
Mewling and puking hi the nurse's arms ; 
Then, the whining school-boy, with his satchel, 
And shining, morning face, creeping like snail 
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover, 
Sighing like furnace, with a woful ballad 
Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier, 
Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard, 
Jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel, 
Seeking the bubble reputation 
Even in the cannon's mouth. And then, the jus- 
tice, 
In fair round belly with good capon lin'd, 
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut, 
Full of wise saws and modern instances, 
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts 
Into the lean and slippered pantaloon, 
With spectacles on nose, and pouch on side ; 
His youthful hose well saved, a world too Avide 
For his shrank shank ; and his big manly voice, 



SHAKSPEARE. 51 

Turning again toward childish treble, pipes 
And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all, 
That ends this strange, eventful history, 
Is second childishness and mere oblivion ; 
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans evfrything. 

Act' vl. Sc. 7. 
Blow, blow, thou winter wind, 
Thou art not so unkind 

As man's ingratitude. Act ii. Sc. 7. 

The fair, the chaste, and unexpressive she. 

Act iii. Sc. 2. 
Hast any philosophy in thee, shepherd ? 

Act iii. Sc. 2. 

wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful 

wonderful, and yet again wonderful, and after 

that out of all whooping. Act iii. Sc. 2. 

Every one fault seeming monstrous, till his 
fellow-fault came to match it. Act iii. Sc. 2. 

Neither rhyme nor reason can express how 
much.* Act iii. Sc. 2. 

Truly, I would the gods had made thee poetical. 

Act iii. Sc. 3. 
Down on your knees, 
And thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love. 

Act iii. Sc. 5 

* See Spenser, ante, p. 28. 



52 SHAKSPEARE. 

It is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of 

many simples, which, by often 

rumination, wraps me in a most humorous sad- 
ness. Act iv. Sc. 1. 

Very good orators, when they are out, they will 
spit. Act iv. Sc. 1. 

I had rather have a fool to make me merry, 
than experience to make me sad. Act iv. Sc. 1. 

Men have died from time to time, and worms 
have eaten them, but not for love. Act iv. Sc. 1. 

Men are April when they woo, December when 
they wed. Act iv. Sc. 1. 

Pacing through the forest, 
Chewing the food of sweet and bitter fancy. 

Act iv. Sc 3. 

No sooner met, but they looked; no sooner 

looked, but they loved ; no sooner loved, but 

they sighed ; no sooner sighed, but they asked 

one another the reason. Act t. Sc. 2. 

How bitter a thing it is to look into happiness 
through another man's eyes ! Act v. Sc 2. 

An ill-favored thing, sir, but mine own. 

Act v. Sc. 4. 



SHAKSPEARE. 53 

The Eetort courteous ; the Lie direct. Act v. Sc. 4. 

Your If is the only peacemaker ; much virtue 
in If Act v. Sc. 4. 

Good wine needs no bush. Epilogue. 

TAMING OF THE SHREW. 

As Stephen Sly, and, old John Naps of Greece, 
And Peter Turf, and Henry Pimpernell ; 
And twenty more such names and men as these, 
Which never were, nor no man ever saw. 

Induction, Sc. 2. 
No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en ; 
In brief, sir, study what you most affect. 

Act i. Sc. 1. 
There is small choice in rotten apples. Act i. Sc. 1. 

And thereby hangs a tale.* Act iv. Sc. 1. 

My cake is dough. * Act v. Sc. 1. 

Intolerable, not to be endured. Act v. Sc. 2. 

A woman moved is like a fountain troubled ; 
Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty. 

Act v. Sc. 2. 

* Othello; Act Hi. Sc. 1. Merry Wives ofWindsor; Act 
i. Sc. 4. As You Like It; Act ii. Sc. 7. 



54 SHAKSPEABE. 

winter's TALE. 
A snapper- up of unconsidered trifles. Act iv Sc. 2 

A merry heart goes all the day, 

Your sad tires in a mile-a. Act iv. Sc. 2. 

Daffodils, 
That come before the swallow dares, and take 
The winds of March with beauty ; violets, dim, 
But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes, 
Or Cytherea's breath. Act iv. Sc. 3. 

When you do dance, I wish you 
A wave o' the sea, that you might ever do 
Nothing but that. Act iv. Sc. 3. 



ALLS WELL THAT ENDS WELL. 

It were all one, 
That I should love a bright particular star, 
And think tS wed it. Act i. Sc. 1. 

The hind that would be mated by the lion, 
Must die for love. Act i. Sc. 1 

Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, 

Which we ascribe to Heaven. Act i. Sc L 

Oft expectation fails, and most oft there 

Where most it promises. Act ii. Sc. 1. 



SHAKSPEARE. 55 

From lowest place when virtuous things proceed, 
The place is dignified by the doer's deed. 

Act ii. Sc. 3. 

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good 

and ill together. Act iv. Sc. 3. 

Whose words all ears took captive. Act v. Sc. 3. 

The inaudible and noiseless foot of time. 

Act v. Sc. 3. 
Praising what is lost 
Makes the remembrance dear. Act v. Sc. 3. 

All impediments in fancy's course 

Are motives of more fancy. Act v. Sc. 3. 



TWELFTH NIGHT. 

If music be the food of love, play on, 

Give me excess of it ; that, surfeiting, 

The appetite may sicken, and so die. — 

That strain again ; — it had a dying fall ; 

O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, 

That breathes \ipon a bank of violets, 

Stealing and giving odor. Act i. Sc. 1. 

I am sure care 's an enemy to life. Act i. Sc. 3. 

'T is beauty truly blent, whose red and white 
Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on. 

Act i. Sc. 5. 



56 SEAKSPEARE. 

Journeys end in lovers' meeting 

Every wise man's son doth know. Act ii. Sc. 3. 

Sir To. Dost thou think, because thou art vir- 
tuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale ? 

Glo. Yes, by Saint -Anne ; and ginger shall be 
hot i' the mouth too. Act ii. Sc. 3. 

Let still the woman take 
An elder than herself; so wears she to him, 
So sways she level in her husband's heart. 
For, boy,, however we do praise ourselves, 
Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, 
More longing, wavering, sooner lost and won, 
Than women's are. Act ii. Sc. 4. 

She never told her love, 
But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, 
Feed on her damask cheek : she pined in thought, 
And, with a green and yellow melancholy, 
She sat, like Patience on a monument, 
Smiling at grief. Act ii. Sc. 4. 

I am all the daughters of my father's house, 
And all the brothers too. Act ii. Sc 4. 

An you had any eye behind you, you might 
see more detraction at your heels, than fortune 
before you. Act ii. Sc. 5 



SHAKSPEARE. 57 

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, 
and some have greatness thrust upon them. 

Act ii. Sc. 5. 
0, what a deal of scorn looks beautiful 
In the contempt and anger of his lip ! Act iii. Sc. 1. 

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better. 

Act iii. Sc. 1. 
Let there be gall enough in thy ink ; though 
thou write with a goose-pen, no matter. 

Act iii. Sc. 2. 
Still you keep o' the windy side of the law. 

Act ii. Sc. 3. 
An I thought he had been valiant, and so cun- 
ning in fence, I 'd have seen him damned ere I 'd 
have challenged him. Act iii. Sc. 4. 

Clo. What is the opinion of Pythagoras con- 
cerning wild-fowl ? 

Mai. That the soul of our grandam might haply 
inhabit a bird. 

Clo. What thinks't thou of his opinion ? 

Mai. I think nobly of the soul, and no way ap- 
prove his opinion. Act iii. Sc, 4. 

Thus the whirligig of time brings in his re- 
venges. Act v. Sc. 1. 



58 shakspeAre. 

king john. 
Lord of thy presence, and no land beside. 

Act i. Sc. 1. 
And if his name be George, I'll call him Peter : 
For new-made honor doth forget men's names. 

Act i. Sc. 1. 
He is but a bastard to the time, 
That doth not smack of observation. Act i. Sc. 1. 

Sweet, sweet, sweet poison for the age's tooth. 

Act i. Sc. 1. 
For courage mounteth with occasion. Act ii. Sc. 1. 

I would that I were low laid in my grave ; 
I am not worth this coil that's made for me. 

Act ii. Sc. 1. 
Here I and sorrow sit ; 
Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it. 

Act ii. Sc. 1 
Thou slave, thou wretch, thou coward, 
Thou little valiant, great in villany ! 
Thou ever strong upon the stronger side ! 
Thou fortune's champion, that dost never fight 
But when her humorous ladyship is by 
To teach thee safety ! Act iii. Sc. 1. 

Thou wear a lion's hide ! doff it for shame, 
And hang a calf's skin on those recreant limbs. 

Act iii. Sc. 1. 



SEAKSPEARE. 59 

Grief fills the room up of my absent child, 
Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me ; 
Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, 
Remembers me of all his gracious parts, 
Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form„ 

Act iii. Sc. 1 
Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale, 
Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man. Act iii. Sc. 4. 

When fortune means to men most good, 
She looks upon them with a threatening eye. 

Act iii. Sc. 4. 
And he that stands upon a slippery place, 
Makes nice of no vile hold to stay him up. 

Act iii. Sc. i. 
To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, 
To throw a perfume on the violet, 
To smooth the ice, or add another hue 
Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light, 
To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, 
Is wasteful and ridiculous excess. Act iy. Sc. 2. 

And, oftentimes, excusing of a fault, 

Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse. 

Act iv. Sc. 2. 
How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds 
Makes ill deeds done ! Act iv. Sc 2, 

Mocking the air with colors idly spread. 

Act v. Sc. 1. 



60 SHAKSPEARE. 

KING RICHARD II. 

All places that the eye of Heaven visits, 
Are to a wise man ports and happy havens. 

Act i. Sc. 3. 
Oh, who can hold a fire in his hand, 
By thinking on the frosty Caucasus ? 
Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite, 
By bare imagination of a feast ? Act i. Sc. 3. 

The apprehension of the good 
Gives but the greater feeling to the worse. 

Act i. Sc 3. 
The ripest fruit first falls. Act ii. Sc. 1. 

Not all the waters in the rough rude sea 
Can wash the balm from an anointed king. 

Act iii. Sc. 2. 
And nothing can we call our own but death ; 
And that small module of the barren earth, 
Which serves as paste and cover to our bones. 
For heaven's sake, let us sit upon the ground, 
And tell sad stories of the death of kings. 

Act iii. Sc. 2. 

KING HENRY IV. PART I. 

. In those holy fields, 
Over whose acres walked those blessed feet, 
Which, fourteen hundred years ago, were nailed 
For our advantage, on the bitter cross. Act i. Sc. 1. 



SHAKSPEARE. 61 

Diana's foresters, gentlemen of the shade, min- 
ions of the moon. Act i. Sc. 2. 

Old father antic the law. Act i. Sc. 2. 

Thou hast damnable iteration. Act i. Sc. 2. 

And now am I, if a man should speak truly, 
little better than one of the wicked. Act i. Sc. 2. 

'T is my vocation, Hal ; 't is no sin for a man 
to labor in his vocation. Act i. Sc. 2. 

He will give the devil his due. Act i. Sc. 2. 

And as the soldiers bore dead bodies by, 

He called them untaught knaves, unmannerly, 

To bring a slovenly, unhandsome corse 

Betwixt the wind and his nobility. Act i. Sc. 3. 

And that it was great pity, so it was, 
This villanous saltpetre should be digged 
Out of the bowels of the harmless earth, 
Which many a good tall fellow had destroy'd 
So cowardly ; and but for these vile guns 
He would himself have been a soldier. 

Act i. Sc. 3. 
The blood more stirs, 
To rouse a lion, than to start a hare. Act i. Sc 3. 



62 SHAKSPEARE. 

By heaven, methinks it were an easy leap, 

To pluck bright honor from the pale-faced moon ; 

Or dive into the bottom of the deep, 

Where fathom-line could never touch the ground, 

And pluck up drowned honor by the locks. 

Act i. Sc. 3. 
I know a trick worth two of that. Act ii. Sc. 1. 

If the rascal have not given me medicine to 
make me love him, I '11 be hanged. Act ii. Sc. 2. 

Falstaff sweats to death, 
And lards the lean earth as he walks along. 

Act ii. Sc. 2. 

Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, 

safety. Act ii. Sc. 3. 

Brain him with his lady's fan. Act ii. Sc. 3. 

A plague of all cowards, I say. Act ii. Sc. 4. 

Call you that backing of your friends ? a plague 
upon such backing ! Act ii. Sc. 4. 

I am a Jew else, an Ebrew Jew. Act ii. Sc. 4. 

Thou knowest my old ward ; here I lay, and 
thus I bore my point. Four rogues in buckram 
let drive at me. Act ii. Sc. 4. 



SHAKSPEARE. 63 

Give you a reason on compulsion ! if reasons 
were as plenty as blackberries, I would give no 
man a reason upon compulsion. Act ii. Sc. 4. 

Mark now, how a plain tale shall put you 
down. ^ Act ii. be 4 

I was a coward on instinct. Act ii. Sc. 4. 

No more of that, Hal, an thou lovest me. 

Act ii. Sc. 4. 

A plague of sighing and grief ! it blows a man 

up like a bladder. Act ii. Sc. 4. 

In King Cambyses' vein. Act ii. Sc. 4. 

Banish plump Jack, and banish all the world. 

Act ii. Sc. 4. 

monstrous ! but one half penny-worth of 

bread to this intolerable deal of sack. Act ii. Sc. 4. 

Diseased nature oftentimes breaks forth 

In strange eruptions. Act iii. Sc. 1. 

I am not in the roll of common men. Act iii. Sc. 1 

Glen. I can call spirits from the vasty deep. 
Hot. Why, so can I, or so can any man : 
But will they come when you do call for them ? 

Act iii. Sc. 1. 



64 SHAKSPEARE. 

0, while you live, tell truth, and shame the 
Devil. Act iii. Sc. 1. 

I had rather be a kitten, and cry mew, 

Than one of these same metre ballad-mongers. 

Act iii. Sc. 1. 
But in the way of bargain, mark ye me, 
I'll cavil on the ninth part of a hair. Act iii. Sc. 1. 

A good mouth-filling oath. Act iii. Sc. 1. 

Shall I not take mine ease in mine inn ? 

Act iii. Sc. 3. 
This sickness doth infect 
The very life-blood of our enterprise. Act iv. Sc. 1. 

And witch the world with noble horsemanship. 

Act iv. Sc. 1. 
The cankers of a calm world and a long peace. 

Act iv. Sc. 2. 
A mad fellow met me on the way, and told me, 
I had unloaded all the gibbets, and pressed the 
dead bodies. No eye hath seen such scare-crows. 
I'll not march through Coventry with them, that's 
flat. Nay, and the villains march wide betwixt 
the legs, as if they had gyves on ; for indeed, I 
had most of them out of prison. There 's but a 
shirt and a half in all my company : and the half- 
shirt is two napkins, tacked together, and thrown 



SEAKSPEARE. 65 

over the shoulders like a herald's coat without 
sleeves. Act iv. Sc. 2. 

Food for powder, food for powder ; they '11 fill a 
pit as well as better. Act iv. Sc 2. 

I would it were bedtime, Hal, and all well. 

Act v. Sc. 1. 
Honor pricks me on. Yea, but how if honor 
prick me off when I come on ? how then ? Can 
honor set to a leg ? No. Or an arm ? No. Or 
take away the grief of a wound ? No. Honor 
hath no skill in surgery then ? No. What is 
honor? A word. What is that word honor? 
Air. A trim reckoning ! Who hath it ? He 
that died o' Wednesday. Doth he feel it ? 
No. Doth he hear it? No. Is it insensible 
then ? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live 
with the living ? No. Why ? Detraction will 
not suffer it : therefore I'll none of it : Honor is 
a mere scutcheon, and so ends my catechism. 

Act v. Sc. 1. 
Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere. 

Act v. Sc. 4 
I could have better spared a better man. 

Act v. Sc. 4. 
The better part of valor is discretion. Act v. Sc. 4. 

Lord, Lord, how this world is given to lying ! 
I grant you, I was down, and out of breath ; and 
5 



66 SUAE SPE ARE. 

so was he : but we rose both at an instant, and 
fought a long hour by Shrewsbury clock. 

Act v. Sc. 4, 
Purge, and leave sack, and live cleanly. 

Act v. Sc. 4. 



KING HENRY IV. PART II. 

Even such a man, so faint, so spiritless, 
So dull, so dead in look, so woe-begone, 
Drew Priam's curtain in the dead of night, 
And would have told him, half his Troy was 
burned. Act i. Sc. 1. 

Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news 
Hath but a losing office ; and his tongue 
Sounds ever after as a sullen bell, 
Remembered knolling a departed friend. 

Act i. Sc. 1. 

I am not only witty in myself, but the cause 

that wit is in other men. Act i. Sc. 2. 

For my voice, I have lost it with hollaing, and 

Act i. Sc. 2. 

I'll tickle your catastrophe. Act ii. 3 1, 

lie hath eaten me out of house and home. 

Act ii. Sc. 1 



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He was, indeed, the glass 
Wherein the noble youth did dress themselves. 

Act ii. Sc. 3. 
Sleep, O gentle sleep, 
Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, 
That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down, 
And steep my senses in forgetfulness ? 

Act iii. Sic. 1 
With all appliances and means to boot. 

Act iii. Sc. 1. 
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown. 

Act iii. Sc. 1. 

Accommodated ; That is, when a man is, as 

they say, accommodated ; or, when a man is, — 

being, — whereby, — he may be thought to be 

accommodated ; which is an excellent thing. 

Act iii. Sc. 2. 
Let that suffice, most forcible Feeble. Act iii. Sc. 2. 

We have heard the chimes at midnight. 

Act. iii. Sc. 2. 
Like a man made after supper of a cheese- 
paring ; when he was naked, he was, for all the 
world, like a forked radish, with a head fan- 
tastically carved upon it with a knife. 

Act iii. Sc. 2, 
lie hath a tear for pity, and a hand 
Open as day for melting charity. Act iv. Sc. 4 



68 SHAKSPEARE. 

Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought. 

Act iv. Sc. i. 
Under which king ? Bezonian, speak, or die. 

Act v. Sc. 3. 



KING HENRY V. 

Considei^ation like an angel came, 

And whipped the offending Adam out of him. 

Act i. Sc. 1. 
When he speaks, 
The air, a chartered libertine, is still. Act i. Sc. 1. 

Base is the slave that pays. Act ii. Sc. 1. 

A' babbled of green fields. Act ii. Sc. 3. 

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once 

more ; 
Or close the wall up with our English dead ! 
In peace, there 's nothing so becomes a man, 
As modest stillness, and humility ; 
But when the blast of war blows in our ears, 
Then imitate the action of the tiger : 
Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood. 

Act iii. Sc. I 
I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, 
Straining upon the start. Act iii. Sc 1 

You may as well say, — that 's a valiant flea, 
tfiat dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion. 

Act iii. Sc. 1- 



SHAKSPEARE. 69 

The hum of either army stilly sounds, 
That the fix'd sentinels almost receive 
The secret whispers of each other's watch : 
Fire answers fire ; and through their paly flames 
Each hattle sees the other's umbered face: 
Steed threatens steed, in high and boastful neighs 
Piercing the night's dull ear ; and from the tents 
The armorers, accomplishing the knights, 
"With busy hammers closing rivets up, 
Give dreadful note of preparation. Act iv. Chorus. 

There is some sort of goodness in things evil, 
Would men observingly distil it out. Act iv. Sc. 1. 

Every subject's duty is the king's ; but every 
subject's soul is his own. Act iv. Sc. 1. 

That's a perilous shot out of an elder gun. 

Act iv. Sc. 1. 
Gets him to rest, crammed with distressful bread. 

Act iv. Sc. 1. 
This day is called the feast of Crispian : 
He that outlives this day, and comes safe home, 
Will stand a tip-toe when the day is named, 
And rouse him at the name of Crispian. 

Act iv. Sc. 3. 
Then shall our names, 
Familiar in their mouths as household words, — 
Harry the King, Bedford and Exeter, 



70 SHAKSPEARE. 

Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloster, — 
Be in their flowing cups freshly remembered. 

Act iv. Sc. 3. 

If he be not fellow with the best king, thou shall 

rind the best king of good fellows. Act v. Sc. 2. 



KING HENRY VI. PART I. 

Hung be the heavens with black. Act i. Sc. 1. 

She 's beautiful ; and therefore to be wooed : 
She is a woman ; therefore to be won. Act v. Sc. 3. 



KING HENRY VI. PART II. 

Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep. 

Act iii. Sc. 1. 
What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted ? 
Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just ; 
And he but naked, though locked up in steel, 
Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.* 

Act iii. Sc. 2. 
He dies and makes no sign. Act iii. Sc. 3. 

Is not this a lamentable thing, that of the skin 
of an innocent lamb should be made parchment ? 
that parchment, being scribbled o'er, should undo 
a man ? Act iv. Sc. 2 

* " I'm armed with more than complete steel, 
The justice of my quarrel." — Marlowe. Lust's Dominion. 



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Sir, he made a chimney in my father's house, 
and the bricks are alive at this day to testify it. 

Act iv. Sc. 2 

Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth 
of the realm, in erecting a grammar-school : and 
■whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books 
but the score and the tally, thou hast caused 
printing to be used ; and contrary to the king, his 
crown, and dignity, thou hast built a paper-mill. 

Act iv. Sc. 7. 

KING HENRY VI. PART III. 

The smallest worm will turn being trodden on. 

Act ii. Sc. 2. 
Suspicion alway haunts the guilty mind ; 
The thief doth fear each bush an officer. 

Act v. Sc. 6. 

KING RICHARD III. 

Now is the winter of our discontent 
Made glorious summer by this sun of York ; 
And all the, clouds that lowered upon our house, 
In the deep bosom of the ocean buried. 

Act i. Sc. 1. 
Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front. 

Act i. Sc. 1. 
I, that am curtailed of this fair proportion, 
Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, 
Deformed, unfinished, sent before my time 
Into this breathing world, scarce half made up. 

Act i. Sc. 1 



72 SHAKSPEARE. 

Why I, in this weak piping time of peace, 
Have no delight to pass away the time. 

Act i. Sc 1 
To leave this keen encounter of our wits. 

Act i. Sc. 2 
Was ever woman in this humor wooed ? 
Was ever woman in this humor won ? 

Act i. Sc. 2 
And thus I clothe my naked villany 
With old odd ends, stol'n forth of lioly writ ; 
And seem a saint, when most I play the devil. 

Act i. Sc. 3. 
0, I have passed a miserable night, 
So full of fearful dreams, of ugly sights, 
That, as I am a christian faithful man, 
I would not spend another such a night, 
Though 't were to buy a world of happy days. 

Act i. Sc. 4, 
So wise, so young, they say, do ne'er live long. 

Act iii. Sc. 1. 
Thou troublest me ; I am not in the vein. 

Act iv. Sc. 2. 
Their lips were four red roses on a stalk. 

Act iv. Sc 3. 
Let not the heavens hear these tell-tale women 
Rail on the Lord's anointed. Act iv. Sc 4 

An honest tale speeds best, being plainly told. 

Act iv. Sc. 4. 



SHAKSPEARE. 73 

Thus far into the bowels of the land 
Have we marched on without impediment. 

Act v. Sc. 2, 
True hope is swift, and flies with SAvallow's wings, 
Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings. 

Actv.Sc. 2 
The king's name is a tower of strength. 

Act v. Sc. 3. 
A thing devised by the enemy. Act v. Sc. 3. 

A horse ! a horse ! My kingdom for a horse ! 

Actv. Su.4, 
I have set my life upon a cast, 
And I will stand the hazard of the die. 

Act v. Sc. 4. 

KING HENRY Vni. 

Verily 
I swear, 't is better to be lowly born, 
And range with humble livers in content, 
Than to be perked up in a glistering grief, 
And wear a golden sorrow. Act ii. Sc. 3. 

And then to breakfast with 
What appetite you have. Act iii. Sc. 2. 

Tress not a falling man too far. Act iii. Sc. 2. 

Farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness ! 
This is the state of man. To-day he puts forth 



74 SIIAKSPEARE. 

The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms, 
And bears his blushing honors thick upon him : 
The third day, comes a frost, a killing frost. 

Act iii. Sc. 2 

Vain pomp, and glory of this world, I hate ye ; 
I feel my heart new opened. how wretched 
Is that poor man, that hangs on princes' favors ! 
There is, betwixt that smile we would aspire to, 
That sweet aspect of princes, and their rum, 
More pangs and fears than wars or women have ; 
And when he falls, he falls like Lucifer, 
Never to hope again. Act iii. Sc. 2. 

And sleep in dull, cold marble. Act iii. Sc 2. 

Fling away ambition : 
By that sin fell the angels. Act iii. Sc. 2. 

Love thyself last. Act iii. Sc. 2. 

Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, 
To silence envious tongues : be just, and fear not . 
Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, 
Thy God's, and truth's. Act iii. Sc. 2. 

Had I but served my God with half the zeal 
I served my king, he would not in mine age 
Have left me naked to mine enemies. 

Act iii. Sc. 2. 



SHAKSPEARE. 7o 

An old man, broken with the storms of state, 

Is come to lay his weary bones among ye ; 

Give him a little earth for charity ! Act iv. Sc. 2 

He gave his honors to the world again, 

His blessed part to Heaven, and slept in peace. 

t Act iv. Sc. 2 
He was a man 
Of an unbounded stomach. Act iv. Sc. 2. 

Men's evil manners live in brass ; their virtues 
We write in water. Act iv. Sc. 2. 

Pie was a scholar, and a ripe and good one ; 
Exceeding wise, fair spoken and persuading : 
Lofty, and sour, to them that loved him not ; 
But, to those men that sought him, sweet as sum- 
mer. Act iv. Sc. 2. 

To dance attendance on their lordships' pleasures. 

Act v. Sc. 2. 

TROILUS AND CRESSIDA. 

I have had my labor for my travel. Act i. Sc. 1. 

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. 

Act iii. Sc. 3. 
And, like a dew-drop from the lion's mane, 
Be shook to airy air. Act iii. Sc. 3. 



76 SHAKSPEARE. 



CORIOLANUS. 

Hear you this Triton of the minnows ? 

Act hi. Sc. 

JULIUS CAESAR. 

Beware theTdes of March ! Act i. Sc. 1. 

I cannot tell what you and other men 

Think of this life ; but for my single self, 

I had as lief not be, as live to be 

In awe of such a thing as I myself. Act i. Sc. 2. 

Dar'st thou, Cassius, now 
Leap hi with me into this angry flood, 
And swim to yonder point ? — Upon the word, 
Accoutred as I was, I plunged in, 
And bade him follow. Act i. Sc. 2, 

Ye gods, it doth amaze me, 
A man of such a feeble temper should 
So get the start of the majestic world, 
And bear the palm alone. Act i. Sc. 2 

Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world, 
Like a Colossus ; and we petty men 
Walk under his huge legs, and peep about 
To find ourselves dishonorable graves. 
Men at some time are masters of their fates ; 



SHAKSPEARE. 77 

The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, 
But in ourselves, that we are underlings. 

Act i. Sc. 2. 
Rome, thou hast lost the breed of noble bloods. 

Act i. Sc, 2. 
Let me have men about me, that are fat ; 
Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o' nights ; 
Yond' Cassius has a lean and hungry look ; 
He thinks too much : such men are dangerous. 

Act i. Sc. 2 
Seldom he smiles ; and smiles in such a sort, 
As if he mocked himself, and scorned his spirit, 
That could be moved to smile at any thing. 

Act i. Sc. 2. 
But, for mine own part, it was Greek to me. 

Act i. Sc. 2. 
Between the acting of a dreadful thing 
And the first motion, all the interim is 
Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream. Act ii. Sc. 1. 

But, when I tell him, he hates flatterers, 
He says, he does ; being then most flattered. 

Act ii. Sc. 1. 
You are my true and honorable wife, 
As dear to me, as are the ruddy drops 
That visit my sad heart. Act ii. Sc. 1 

When beggars die, there are no comets seen ; 
The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of 
princes. Act ii. Sc. 2 



78 SHAKSPEAEE. 

Cowards die many times before their deaths ; 
The valiant never taste of death but once. 

Act ii. Sc. 2. 
But I am constant as the northern star, 
Of whose true-fixed and resting quality 
TLere is no fellow in the firmament. Act iii. Sc 1. 

The choice and master spirits of this age. 

Act iii. Sc. 1. 
Though last, not least, in love. Act iii. Sc. 1. 

Cry Havoc, and let slip the dogs of war. 

Act iii. Sc. 1. 
Romans, countrymen, and lovers ! hear me for 
my cause ; and be silent that you may hear. 

Act iii. Sc. 2. 

Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved 

Rome more. Act iii. Sc. 2. 

Who is here so base, that would be a bondman ? 
If any, speak : for him have I offended. 

Act iii. Sc. 2. 
The evil that men do, lives after them ; 
The good is oft interred with their bones. 

Act iii. Sc. 2. 
For Brutus is an honorable man ; 
So are they all, all honorable men. Act iii. Sc. 2. 

When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept ; 
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff. 

Act iii. Sc. 2 



SIIAKSPEARE. 79 

But yesterday, the word of Caesar might 

Have stood against the world ; now lies he there, 

And none so poor to do him reverence. 

Act iii. Sc. 2. 
If you have tears, prepare to shed them now. 

Act iii. Sc 2 
See, what a rent the envious Casca made ! 

Act iii. & 2 
This was the most unkindest cut of all. 

Act iii. Se. 2. 
Great Caesar fell. 

what a fall was there, my countrymen ! 

Act iii. Sc. 2. 

1 come not, friends, to steal away your hearts ; 
I am no orator, as Brutus is. 

I only speak right on. Act iii. Sc. 2 

Put a tongue 
In every wound of Caesar, that should move 
The stones of Rome to rise and mutiny. 

Act iii. Sc 2. 
There are no tricks in plain and simple faith. 

Act iv. Se. 2. 
You yourself 
Are much condemned to have an itching palm. 

Act iv. Sc, 3 
The foremost man of all this world. Act iv. Sc. 3, 

I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, 

Than such a Roman. Act iv. Sc. S; 



80 SHAKSPEARE. 

There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats ; 
For I am armed so strong in honesty, 
That they pass by me as the idle wind, 
Which I respect not. Act iv. Sc. 3 

A friend should bear his friend's infirmities, 
But Brutus makes mine greater than they are. 

Act iv. Sc. 3 
There is a tide in the affairs of men, 
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune ; 
Omitted, all the voyage of their life 
Is bound in shallows, and in miseries. 

Act iv. Sc 3. 
The last of all the Romans, fare thee well. 

Act v. Sc. 3. 
This was the noblest Roman of them all. 

Ad v. Sc. 5. 
His life was gentle, and the elements 
So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up 
And say to all the world, This was a man ! 

Act v. Sc. 5. 

ANTONY AND CLEOrATRA. 

There 's beggary in the love that can be reckoned. 

Act i. Sc. 1. 
For her own person, 
Tt beggared all description. Act ii. Sc. 2. 

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale 

Her infinite variety. Act ii. Sc. 2, 



SHAKSPEARE. 81 

This morning, like the spirit of a youth 
That means to be of note, begins betimes. 

Act iv. lc. 4. 



CYMBELINE. 

Elark . hark ! the lark at heaven's gate sings,* 
And Phoebus 'gins arise. Act ii. Sc. 3. 

Some griefs are med'cinable. Act iii. Sc. 2. 

Prouder than rustling in unpaid-for silk. 

Act iii. Sc. 3. 
Weariness 
Can snore upon the flint, when restive sloth 
Finds the down pillow hard. Act iii. Sc. 6. 



KING LEAR. 

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is, 

To have a thankless child. Act i. Sc. 4. 

Striving to better, oft we mar what 's well. 

Act i. Sc. 4. 
0, let not women's weapons, water-drops, 
Stain my man's cheeks. Act ii. Sc 4. 

* None b it the lark so shrill and clear! 
Now at Heaven's gate she claps her wings, 
The morn not waking till she sings. — John Lyly. 
Alexander and Campaspe. Act v. Sc. 1. 



82 SHAKSPEARE. 

Blow, wind, and crack your cheeks ! rage ! 
blow ! Act iii. Sc. 2. 

A poor, infirm, weak, and despised old man. 

Act iii. Sc. 2, 

Tremble, thou wretch, 
That hast within thee undivulged crimes, 
Unwhipped of justice. Act iii. St, 2, 

I am a man 
More sinned against than sinning. Act iii. Sc. 2. 

0, that way madness lies ; let me shun that. 

Act iii. Sc. 4. 
Poor naked wretches, whereso'er you are, 
That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, 
How shall your houseless heads, and unfed sides, 
Your looped and windowed raggedness, defend you 
From seasons such as these ? Act iii. Sc. 4. 

Take physic, pomp ; 
Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel. 

Act iii. Sc. 4. 
The green mantle of the standing pool. 

Act iii. Sc, 4, 
But mice, and rats, and such small deer, 
Have been Tom's food for seven long year. 

Act iii. 5c. 4 
The prince of darkness is a gentleman. 

Act iii. Sc. 4 



SHAKSPEARE. 83 

I '11 talk a word with this same learned Theban. 

Act iii. Sc. 4. 
Fie, foh, and fum, 
T smell the blood of a British man. Act iii. Sc. 4. 

The little dogs and all, 
Tray, Blanch, and Sweet-heart, see, they bark at me. 

Act iii. Sc. 6. 

Patience and sorrow strove, 
"Who should express her goodliest. Act iv. Sc. 3. 

Half way down 
Hangs one that gathers samphire ; dreadful trade ! 
Methinks, he seems no bigger than his head : 
The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, 
Appear like mice. Act iv. Sc. 6. 

Ay, every inch a king. Act iv. Sc. 6. 

Give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary, to 
sweeten my imagination. Act iv. Sc. 6. 

Through tattered clothes small vices do appear : 
Bobes and furred gowns hide all. Act iv. Sc. 6. 

The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices 
Make instruments to scourge us. Act v. Sc. 3. 

Pier voice was ever soft, 
Gentle, and low ; an excellent thing in woman. 

Act v. Sc. 3. 



84 SHAKSPEARE. 

Vex not his ghost: 0, let him pass ! he hates him 
That would upon the rack of this tough world 
Stretch him out longer. Act v. Sc. 3. 



TITUS ANDRONICUS. 

Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge. Act i. Sc. 2 

She is a woman, therefore may be woo'd ; 
She is a woman, therefore may be Avon ; 
She is Lavinia, therefore must be loved. 

Act ii. Sc. 1 

ROMEO AND JULIET. 

The weakest goes to the wall. Act i. Sc. 1 

Ere he can spread his sweet leaves to the air, 
Or dedicate his beauty to the sun. Act i. Sc. 1. 

One fire burns out another's burning. 
One pain is lessened by another's anguish. 

Act i. Sc. 2. 
That book in many's eyes doth share the glory, 
That in gold clasps locks in the golden story. 

Act i. Sc. 3 
For I am proverbed with a grandsire phrase. 

Act i. Sc. 1 
O, then I see, Queen Mab hath been with you, 
She is the fairies' midwife ; and she comes 
In shape no bigger than an agate-stone 



SnAKSPEARE. 85 

On the forefinger of an alderman, 
Drawn with a team of little atomies 
Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep. 

Act i. Sc. 4. 
True, I talk of dreams ; 
"Which are the children of an idle brain, 
Begot of nothing but vain fantasy. Act i. Sc. 4. 

Her beauty hangs upon the cheek of night 

Like a 'rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear. Act i. Sc. 5. 

Too early seen unknown, and known too late. 

Act i. Sc. 5. 
He jests at scars, that never felt a wound. 

Act ii. Sc. 2. 
See, how she leans her cheek upon her hand ! 
0, that I were a glove upon that hand, 
That I might touch that cheek ! Act ii. Sc. 2. 

Romeo, Romeo ! wherefore art thou Romeo ? 

Act ii. Sc. 2. 
What 's in a name ? that which we call a rose 
By any other name would smell as sweet. 

Act ii. Sc. 2. 
Alack ! there lies more peril in thine eye, 
Than twenty of their swords. Act ii. Sc. 2. 

At lovers' perjuries, 
They say, Jove laughs. Act ii. Sc 2. 



86 SHAKSPEARE. 

Rom. Lady, by yonder blessed moon I swear, 
That tips with silver all these fruit-tree tops, — 
Jul. O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant 
moon, 
That monthly changes in her circled orb, 
Lest that thy love prove likewise variable. 

Act ii. 51c. a 
The god of my idolatry. Act ii. Sc 2 

Good night, good night ! parting is such sweet 

sorrow, 
That I shall say good night, till it be morrow. 

Act ii. Sc. 2. 
Nor aught so good, but, strained from that fair use, 
Revolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse. 

Act ii. Sc 3. 
Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye. 

Act ii. Sc. 3. 
Thy old groans ring yet in my ancient ears. 

Act ii. Sc. 3. 
Stabbed with a white wench's black eye. 

Act ii. Sc. 4. 

flesh, flesh, how art thou fishified ! Act ii. Sc. 4. 

1 am the very pink of courtesy. Act ii. Sc, 4 . 

My man 's as true as steel. Act ii. Sc. i 

Here comes the lady ; — 0, so light a foot 
Will ne'er wear out the everlasting flint. 

Act ii. Sc. 6 



SEAKSPEARE. 87 

A plague o' both the houses ! Act iii. Sc. 1. 

Horn. Courage, man ! the hurt cannot be 
much. 

Mer. No, 't is not so deep as a well, nor so 
wide as a church-door ; but 't is enough. 

Act iii. Sc. 1. 
When he shall die, 
Take him and cut him out in little stars, 
And he will make the face of heaven so fine, 
That all the world will be in love with night 
And pay no worship to the garish sun. 

Act iii. Sc. 2. 
Beautiful tyrant ! fiend angelical. Act iii. Sc. 2. 

0, that deceit should dwell 
In such a gorgeous palace ! Act iii. Sc. 2. 

Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy. Act iii. Sc. 3. 

Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day 
Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain-tops. 

Act iii. Sc. 5. 
Straining harsh discords and unpleasing sharps. 

Act iii. Sc. 5. 
Villain and he are many miles asunder. 

Act iii. Sc. 5. 
Not stepping o'er the bounds of modesty. 

Act iv. Sc. 2. 
My bosom's lord sits lightly in his tin-one. 

Act v. Sc. 1. 



38 SHAKSPEARE. 

A beggarly account of empty boxes. Act v. 5c. 1. 

My poverty, but not my will, consents. 

Act v. Sc. 1. 
A feasting presence full of light. Act v. Sc. 3. 

Beauty's ensign yet 
Is jrimson in thy lips, and in thy cheeks, 
And death's pale flag is not advanced there. 

Act v. Sc. 3. 

Eyes, look your last ! 
Arms, take your last embrace ! Act v. Sc. 3. 

TIMON OF ATHENS. 

Are not within the leaf of pity writ. Act iv. Sc. 3. 

I'll example you with thievery : 
The sun 's a thief, and with his great attraction 
Robs the vast sea : the moon 's an arrant thief, 
And her pale fire sl»3 snatches from the sun : 
The sea 's a thief, w^iose liquid surge resolves 
The moon into salt tears : the earth 's a thief, 
That feeds and breeds by a composture stolen 
From general excrement : each thing 's a thief. 

Act iv. Sc, 2 

MACBETH. 

1 Witch. When shall we three meet again, 
In thunder, lightning, or in l'ain ? 

Act i. Sc. 1. 



SnAKSPEARE. 89 

Fair is foul, and foul is fair. Act i. Sc. 1. 

If you can look into the seeds of time, 
And say, which grain "will grow, and which will 
not. Act i. Sc. 3. 

The earth hath bubbles, as the water has, 
And these are of them. Act i. Sc. 3. 

Stands not within the prospect of belief. 

Act i. Sc. 3. 
The insane root 
That takes the reason prisoner. Act i. Sc. 3. 

Two truths are told, 
As happy prologues to the swelling act 
Of the imperial theme. Act i. Sc. 3. 

And make my seated heart knock at my ribs. 

Act i. Sc. 3. 
Present fears 
Are less than horrible imaginings. Act i. Sc 3. 

Come what come may, 
Time and the hour runs through the roughest 
day. Act i. <Sc. 3. 

Nothing in his life 
Became him like the leaving it ; he died, 
As one that had been studied in his death 



90 SHAKSPEARE. 

To throw away the dearest tiling he owed. 

As 't were a careless trifle. Act i. Sc 4 

There 's no art 
To find the mind's construction in the face. 

Act i. Sc. 4. 
Yet do I fear thy nature ; 
It is too full of the milk of human kindness. 

Act i. Sc. 5. 
"What thou wouldst highly, 
That wouldst thou holily ; wouldst not play false, 
And yet wouldst wrongly win. Act i. Sc. 5. 

That no compunctious visitings of nature 

Shake my fell purpose. Act i. Sc. 5. 

Your face, my thane, is as a book, where men 
May read strange matters. Act i. Sc. 5. 

Coigne of vantage. Act i. Sc. 6. 

If it were done, when 't is done, then 't were 

well 
It were done quickly. If the assassination 
Could trammel up the consequence, and catch, 
With his surcease, success ; that but this blow 
Might be the be-all and the end-all here. 

Act i. Sc. 7 
Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return 
To plague the inventor : this even-handed justice 



SHAKSPEARE. 91 

Commends the ingredients of our poisoned chalice 
To our own lips. Act i. Sz 7. 

Besides, this Duncan 
, Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been 
So clear in his great oifice, that his virtues 
Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against 
The deep damnation of his taking-off. Act i. Sc. 7. 

I have no spur 
To prick the sides of my intent, but only- 
Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself, 
And falls on the other Act i. Sc. 7. 

I have bought 
Golden opinions from all sorts of people. 

Act i. Sc. 7. 
Letting I dare not wait upon I would, 
Like the poor cat i' the adage. Act i. Sc. 7. 

I dare do all that may become a man ; 

Who dares do more, is none. Act i. Sc. 7. 

Nor time, nor place, did then adhere. Act i. Sc. 7. 

Screw your courage to the sticking-place. 

Act i. Sc. 7. 
Memory, the warder of the brain. Act i. Sc. 7. 

Is this a dagger which I see before me, 
The handle toward my hand ? 



92 SIIAKSPEARE. 

Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible 
To feeling, as to sight ; or art thou but 
A dagger of the mind ; a false creation, 
Proceeding from the heat oppressed brain ? 

Act ii. Sc. 1, 
Thou marshal'st me the way that I was going. 

Actii. Sc. 1. 
Thou. sure and firm-set earth, 
Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear 
Thy very stones prate of >my whereabout. 

Act ii. Sc 1. 
Hear it not, Duncan ; for it is a knell 
That summons thee to heaven or to hell ! 

Act ii. Sc. 1. 
It was the owl that shrieked, 
The fatal bellman, which gives the stern'st good 
night. Act ii. Sc. 2. 

The attempt, and not the deed, confounds us. 

Act ii. Sc 2. 
I had most need of blessing, and Amen 
Stuck in my throat. Act ii. Sc. 2. 

Methought, I heard a voice cry, " Sleep no more ! " 
Macbeth does murder sleep ! the innocent sleep ; 
Sleep, that knits up the ravelled sleave of care. 
The death of each day's life, sore labor's bath, 
Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, 
Chief nourisher in life's feast. Act ii. Sc. 2. 

Infirm of purpose ! Act ii. Sc. 2. 



SHAKSPEARE. 93 

My hand will rather 
'The multitudinous seas incarnadine, 
Making the green — one red. Act ii. Sc 2. 

The labor we delight in, physics pain. Act ii. Sc 3, 

Confusion now hath made his masterpiece ! 
Most sacriligeous murder hath broke ope 
The Lord's anointed temple, and stole thence 
The life o' the building. Act ii. Sc. 3. 

The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees 

Is left this vault to brag of. Act ii. Sc 3. 

A falcon, towering in her pride of place, 
Was by a mousing owl hawked at, and killed. 

Act ii. Sc. 4, 
Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown, 
And put a barren sceptre in my gripe, 
Thence to be wrenched with an unlineal hand, 
No son of mine succeeding. Act iii. Sc. 1. 

Mur. "We are men, my liege. 

Mac. Ay, in the catalogue ye go for men. 

Act iii. Sc. 1 , 
Things without all remedy, 
Should be without regard : what 's done is done. 

Act iii. Sc. 2. 
We have scotched the snake, not killed it. 

Act iii. Sc. 2. 



94 SHAKSPEARE. 

Duncan is in his grave ! 
After life's fitful fever lie sleeps well. 

Act iii. Sc. 2. 
But now, I am cabined, cribbed, confined, bound in 
To saucy doubts and fears. Act iii. Sc. 4. 

Now good digestion wait on appetite, 

And health on both ! Act iii. Sc 4. 

Thou canst not say, I did it ; never shake 

Thy gory locks at me. Act iii. Sc. 4. 

The times have been, 
That, when the brains were out, the man would die, 
And there an end : but now they rise again, 
With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, 
And push us from our stools. Act iii. Sc. 4. 

Thou hast no speculation in those eyes 

Which thou dost glare with ! Act iii. Sc. 4. 

What man dare, I dare. Act iii. Sc. 4. 

Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves 
Shall never tremble. Act iii. Sc. 4. 

I Tnreal mockery, hence ! Act iii. Sc. 4 

You have displaced the mirth, broke the good 
meeting, with most admired disorder. 

Act iii. Sc. 4, 



SEAKSPEARE. 95 

Can suck things be, 
And overcome us like a summer's cloud, 
Without our special wonder ? Act iii. Sc. 4. 

Stand not upon the order of your going, 

But gO at once. Act iii. Sc. 1 

Double, double, toil and trouble. Act iv. Sc. 1. 

Black spirits and white, 
Red spirits and gray, 
Mingle, mingle, mingle, 
You that mingle may.* 

Act iv. Sc. 1. 
By the pricking of my thumbs, 
Something wicked this way comes. 

Act iv. Sc. 1. 
A deed without a name. Act iv. Sc. 1. 

I'll make assurance double sure, 
And take a bond of fate. Act iv. Sc. 1. 

Show his eyes, and grieve his heart ! 

Come like shadows, so depart. Act iv. Sc. 1. 

What ! will the line stretch out to the crack of 
doom ? Act iv. Sc 1. 

* These lines occur also in " The Witch " of Thomas Mid- 
dleton, Act 5, Sc. 2 ; and it is uncertain to which the priority 
should be ascribed. 



96 SHAKSPEARE. 

The flighty purpose never is o'ertook, 

Unless the deed go with it. Act iv. Sc. 1. 

When our actions do not, 
Our fears do make us traitors. Act iv. Sc. 2. 

Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell. 

Act iv. Sc. 3. 
Stands Scotland where it did ? Act iv. Sc. 3. 

Give sorrow words ; the grief that does not speak, 
Whispers the o'erfraught heart, and bids it break. 

Act iv. Sc. 3. 
What, all my pretty chickens, and their dam, 
At one fell swoop ? Act iv. Sc. 3. 

I cannot but remember such things were, 

That were most precious to me. Act iv. Sc. 3. 

0, I could play the woman with mine eyes, 
And braggart with my tongue ! Act iv. Sc. 3. 

Fie, my lord, fie, a soldier and afeared. Act v. Sc. 1. 

All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten 
this little hand. Act v. Sc. 1. 

My way of life 
Is fallen into the sear, the yellow leaf; 
And that which should accompany old age, 



SRAKSPEARE. 97 

As honor, love, obedience, troops of friends, 
I must not look to have ; but, in their stead, 
Curses, not loud, but deep, mouth-honor, breath, 
Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare 
not. Act v. Sc. 3. 

Not so sick, my lord, 
As she is troubled with thick-coming fancies, 
That keep her from her rest. Act v. Sc 3. 

Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased ; 
Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow ; 
Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; 
And, with some sweet oblivious antidote, 
Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff 
Which weighs upon the heart ? Act v. Sc. 3. 

Therein the patient must minister to himself. 

Act v. Sc. 3. 
Throw physic to the dogs : I '11 none of it. 

Act v. Sc. 3. 
I would applaud thee to the very echo, 
That should applaud again. Act v. Sc. 3. 

Hang out our banners on the outward walls ; 
The cry is still, They come. Our castle's strength 
Will laugh a siege to scorn. Act v. Sc. 5. 

I have supped full with horrors. Act v. Sc. 6. 

7 



98 SEAKSPEARE. 

To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, 

Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, 

To the last syllable of recorded time ; 

And all our yesterdays have lighted fools 

The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle ! 

Life 's but a walking shadow ; a poor player, 

That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, 

And then is heard no more ; it is a tale 

Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, 

Signifying nothing. Act v. Sc. 5 

Lies like truth. Act. v. Sc 5 

Blow, wind ! come, wrack ! 
At least we '11 die with harness on our back. 

Act v. Sc. 5. 

I bear a charmed life. Act v. Sc. 7. 

That palter with us in a double sense ; 

That keep the word of promise to our ear, 

And break it to our hope. Art v. Sc. 7. 

Lay on, Macduff; 
And damned be him that first cries, Hold, enough ! 

Act v. Sc. 7. 



SBAKSPEARE. 99 



This bodes some strange eruption to our state. 

Act i. Set 
Does not divide the Sunday from the week. 

Act i. Sc. 1. 
Doth make the night joint-laborer with the day- 

Art i. Sc, 1 
In the most high and palmy state of Rome, 
A little ere the mightiest Julius fell, 
The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead 
Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets. 

Act i. Sc. 1. 
And then it started like a guilty thing 
Upon a fearful summons. Act i. Sc. 1. 

Some say, that ever 'gainst that season comes 
Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, 
This bird of dawning singeth all night long : 
And then they say no spirit dares stir abroad ; 
The nights are wholesome ; then no planets strike, 
No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm, 
So hallowed and so gracious is the time. 

Act i. Sc. 1. 
The head is not more native to the heart. 

Act i. Sc. 2. 
A little more than kin, and less than kind. 

Act i. Sc. 2. 

Seems, madam ! nay, it is ; I know not seems. 

Act i. Sc. 2. 

-L0FC. 



100 SHAKSPEARE. 

But I have that within which passeth show ; 
These, but the trappings and the suits of woe. 

Act i. Sc. 2. 
O that this too, too solid flesh would melt, 
Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew ! 
Or that the Everlasting had not fixed 
His canon 'gainst self-slaughter ! God ! O God ! 
How weary, st tie, flat, and unprofitable 
Seem to me all the uses of this world ! Act i. Sc. 2. 

That it should come to this ! Act i. Sc. 2. 

Hyperion to a satyr ! so loving to my mother, 
That he might not beteem the winds of heaven 
Visit her face too roughly. Act i. Sc. 2. 

Why, she would hang on him, 
As if increase of appetite had grown 
By what it fed on. Act i. Sc 2. 

Frailty, thy name is woman ! Act i Sc. 2. 

A little month. Act i. Sc. 2. 

Like Niobe, all tears. Act i. Sc 2. 

A beast, that wants discourse of reason. 

Act Sc 2. 
My father's brother ; but no more like my father 
Than I to Hercules. Act i. Sc. 2. 



SHAKSPEARE. 101 

Thrift, thrift, Horatio ! the funeral baked meats 
Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables. 

Ad i. Sc. 2. 
In my mind's eye, Horatio. Act i. Sc. 2. 

He was a man, take him for all in all, 

I shall not look upon his like again. Act i. Sc. 2. 

A countenance more 
In sorrow than in anger. Act i. Sc 2. 

Give it an understanding, but no tongue. 

Act i. Sc. 2. 
The chariest maid is prodigal enough, 
If she unmask her beauty to the moon. 

Act i. Sc. 3. 
And in the morn and liquid dew of youth 
Contagious blastments are most imminent. 

Act i. Sc. 3. 

Do not, as some ungracious pastors do. 
Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven ; 
"Whilst, like a puffed and reckless libertine, 
Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads, 
And recks not his own rede. Act i. Sc. 3, 

Give thy thoughts no tongue. Act i. Sc. 3. 

Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. 
The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, 
Grapple them to thy soul with hooks of steel. 

Act i. Sc 3. 



102 SHAKSPEARE. 

Beware 
Of entrance to a quarrel : but, being in, 
Bear 't that th' opposed may beware of thee. 
Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice : 
Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judg- 
ment. Act i. Sc. 3. 

Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, 

But not expressed in fancy ; rich, not gaudy ; 

For the apparel oft proclaims the man. 

Act i. Sc a 

Neither a borrower nor a lender be, 
For loan oft loses both itself and friend ; 
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. 
This above all, — To thine ownself be true ; 
And it must follow, as the night the day, 
Thou canst not then be false to any man. 

Act i. Sc. 8. 
Springes to catch woodcocks.* Act i. Sc. 3. 

But to my mind, — though I am native here, 
And to the manner born, — it is a custom 
More honored in the breach, than the observance. 

Act i. Sc. 4. 
Angels and ministers of grace, defend us ! 

Act i. Sc. 4, 
Thou comest in such a questionable shape, 
That I will speak to thee. Act i. Sc. 4. 

* A proverbial phrase. 



SHAKSPEARE. 103 

Let me not burst in ignorance ! Act i. Sc. 4 

In complete steel 
Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon 
Making night hideous. Act i. Sc. 4. 

I do not set my life at a pin's fee. Act i. Sc. 4. 

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. 

Act i. Sc. 4. 
But that I am forbid 
To tell the secrets of my prison house 
I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word 
Would harrow up thy soul ; freeze thy young 

blood ; 
Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their 

spheres ; 
Thy knotted and combined locks to part, 
And each particular hair to stand on end, 
Like quills upon the fretful porcupine : 
But this eternal blazon must not be 
To ears of flesh and blood. List, list, O list ! 

Act i. Sc. 5. 
And duller should'st thou be than the fat weed 
That rots itself in ease on Lethe wharf. 

Act i. Sc. 5. 
my prophetic soul ! mine uncle ! Act i. Sc. 5. 

Hamlet, what a falling- off was there ! 

Act i. Sc. 6. 



104 SHAKSPEARE. 

But soft ! metliinks I scent the morning air ; 
Brief let me be : Sleeping within mine orchard, 
My custom always in the afternoon. Act i. Sc. 5. 

Unhouseled, disappointed, unaneled, 

No reckoning made, but sent to my account 

With all my imperfections on my head. 

Act i. Sc. 5. 
Leave her to heaven 
And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge, 
To prick and sting her. Act i. Sc. 5. 

The glow-worm shows the matin to be near, 
And 'gins to pale his uneffectual fire. Act. i. Sc. 5. 

While memory holds a seat 
In this distracted globe. Remember thee ? 
Yea, from the table of my memory, 
I '11 wipe away all trivial, fond records. 

Act i. Sc. 5. 
Within the book and volume of my brain. 

Act i. Sc. 5. 
My tables, my tables, — meet it is, I set it down, 
That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain. 

Act i. Sc 5. 
There needs no ghost, my lord, come from the grave, 
To tell us this. Act i. Sc, 5, 

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio 
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. 

Act i. Sc. 5. 



SHAKSPEARE. 


105 


The time is out of joint. 


Act i. Sc. 5 


This is the very ecstasy of love. 


Act ii. Sc I. 


Brevity is the soul of wit. 


Act ii. Sc 2. 



That he is mad, 't is true ; 't is true, 't is pity ; 
And pity 't is, 't is true. Act ii. Sc. 2. 

Doubt thou the stars are fire ; 

Doubt that the sun doth move ; 
Doubt truth to be a liar ; 

But never doubt I love. Act ii. Sc 2. 

Still harping on my daughter. Act ii. Sc. 2. 

Pol. What do you read, my lord ? 

Ham. Words, Avords, words ! Act ii. 6c. 2. 

They have a plentiful lack of wit. Act ii. Sc. 2. 

Though this be madness, yet there 's method in it. 

Act ii. Sc. 2. 
On fortune's cap we are not the very button. 

Act ii. Sc. 2. 
This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a 
sterile promontory ; this most excellent canopy, 
the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firma- 
ment, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, 
why, it appears no other thing to me, than a foul 



106 SHAKSPEARE. 

and pestilent congregation of vapors. What a 
piece of work is man ! How noble in reason ! 
how infinite in faculties ! in form and moving, how 
express and admirable ! in action, how like an 
angel ! in apprehension, how like a God ! 

Act ii. Sc. 2. 
Man delights not me, — no, nor woman neither. 

Act ii. Sc. 2. 

I know a hawk from a hand-saw. Act ii. Sc. 2. 

Come, give us a taste of your quality. 

Act ii. Sc. 2. 
'T was caviare to the general. Act ii. Sc. 2. 

They are the abstracts and brief chronicles of 
the time. Act ii. Sc 2. 

Use every man after his desert, and who should 
'scape whipping. Act ii. Sc. 2. 

What 's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, 

That he should weep for her ? Act ii. Sc. 2 

The devil hath power 
To assume a pleasing shape. Act ii. Sc. 2, 

The play 's the thing, 
Wherein I '11 catch the conscience of the king. 

Act ii. Sc. 2 



SHAKSPEARE. 107 

For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak 
With most miraculous organ. Act ii. Sc. 2. 

With devotion's visage, 
And pious action, we do sugar o'er 
The devil himself. Act iii. Se, I 

To be, or not to be ? that is the question : — 
Whether 't is nobler in the mind, to suffer 
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, 
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, 
And, by opposing, end them ? — To die— to sleep — 
No more ; — and, by a sleep, to say we end 
The heart-ache, and the thousand natural shocks 
That flesh is heir to ; — 't is a consummation 
Devoutly to be wished. To die ; — to sleep ; — 
To sleep ! perchance, to dreani : — ay, there 's the 

rub ; 
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, 
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, 
Must give us pause. There 's the respect 
That makes calamity of so long life : 
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, 
The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, 
The pangs of despised love, the law's delay, 
The insolence of office, and the spurns 
That patient merit of the unworthy takes ; 
When he himself might his quietus make 
With a bare bodkin. Who would fardels bear, 
To grunt and sweat under a weary life, 



108 SHAKSPEARE. 

But that the dread of something after death — 

The undiscovered country, from whose bourn 

No traveller returns — puzzles the will ; 

And makes us rather bear those ills we have, 

Than fly to others that we know not of? 

Thus conscience does make cowards of us all, 

And thus the native hue of resolution 

Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought ; 

And enterprises of great pith and moment, 

With this regard, their currents turn awry 

And lose the name of action. Act iii. Sc. 1, 

Nymph, in thy orisons 
Be all my sins remembered. Act iii. Sc. 1. 

Rich gifts wax poor, when givers prove unkind. 

Act iii. Sc. 1 

Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou 

shalt not escape calumny. Act iii. Sc. 1. 

O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown ! 
The courtier's, scholar's, soldier's eve, tongue, 
sword. Act iii. Sc. 1. 

The glass of fashion, and the mould of form, 
The observed of all observers ! Act iii. Sc 1. 

Now see that noble and most sovereign reason, 
Like sweet bells jangled, out of time and harsh. 

Act iii. Sc 1. 



SHAKSPEARE. 109 

Nor do not saw the air too much with your 
hand. Act iii. Sc. 2. 

Tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split 
the ears of the groundlings. Act iii. Sc. 2 

It out-herods Herod. Act iii. Sc. 2. 

Suit the action to the word, the word to the 
action. Act iii. Sc. 2. 

To hold, as 't were, the mirror up to nature. 

Act iii. Sc. 2. 
Though it make the unskilful laugh, 
Cannot but make the judicious grieve. 

Act iii. Sc. 2 

Not to speak it profanely. Act iii. Sc. 2. 

I have thought some of nature's journeymen 
had made men, and not made them well, they 
imitated humanity so abominably. Act iii. Sc. 2 

0, reform it altogether. Act iii. Sc 2 

Horatio, thou art e'en as just a man 
As e'er my conversation coped withal. 

Act iii. Sc a. 
No, let the candid tongue lick absurd pomp ; 
And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee, 
Where thrift may follow fawning. Act iii. Sc. 2 



110 , SBAKbPEABE. 

A man, that fortune's buffets and rewards 

Hast ta'en with equal thanks. Act iii. Sc. 2. 

They are not a pipe for fortune's finger 
To sound what stops she please. Give me that man 
That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him 
In my heart's core, aye, in my heart of heart, 
As I do thee. Something too much of this. 

Act iii. Sc. 2. 
Here 's metal more attractive. Act iii. Sc 2. 

Nay, then let the devil wear black, for I'll have 
a suit of sables. Act. iii. Sc. 2. 

This is miching mallecho ; it means mischief. 

Act iii. Sc. 2. 
Ham. Is this a prologue, or the posy of a ring ? 
Oph. 'T is brief my lord. 
Ham. As woman's love. Act iii. Sc. 2. 

The lady protests too much, methinks. 

Act iii. Sc. 2 

Let the galled jade wince, our withers are 

unwrung. Act iii. Sc. 2. 

Why, let the strucken deer go weep, 

The hart ungalled play ; 
For some must watch, while some must sleep ; 

Thus runs the world away. Act iii. Sc. 2. 



SHAKSPEARE. Ill 

'T is as easy as lying. Act iii. Sc. 2. 

It will discourse most eloquent music. Act iii. Sc, 2. 

Pluck out the heart of my mystery. Act iii. Sc 2 

Very like a whale. Act iii. Sc 2. 

They fool me to the top of my bent. Act iii. Sc. 2. 

'T is now the very witching time of night, 
When churchyards yawn, and hell itself breathes 

out 
Contagion to the world. Act iii. Sc. 2. 

I will speak daggers to her, but use none. 

Act iii. Sc. 2. 
O my offence is rank, it smells to heaven. 

Act iii. Sc. 3. 
About some act, 
That has no relish of salvation in 't. Act iii. Sc. 3. 

False as dicers' oaths. Act iii. Sc. 4. 

Look here, upon this picture, and on this ; 
The counterfeit presentment of two brothers. 
See what a grace was seated on this brow ! 
Hyperion's curls ; the front of Jove himself; 
An eye like Mars, to threaten and command. 

Act iii. Sc. 4. 



112 SHAKSPEARE. 

A combination, and a form, indeed, 
Where every god did seem to set his seal, 
To give the world assurance of a man. 

Act iii. Sc. 4 
At your age, 
The hey-day iu the blood is tame, it 's humble. 

Act iii. Sc. 4. 
A cutpurse of the empire and the rule ; 
That from a shelf the precious diadem stole 
And put it in his pocket. Act iii. Sc. 4 

A king of shreds and patches. Act iii. Sc. 4. 

This is the very coinage of your brain. Act iii. Sc. 4. 

Bring me to the test, 
And I the matter will re-word : which madness 
Would gambol from. Act iii. Sc. 4. 

Lay not that flattering unction to your soul. 

Act iii. Sc. 4. 
Assume a virtue, if you have it not. Act iii. Sc. 4. 

I must be cruel, only to be kind. Act iii. Sc. 4. 

For 't is the sport, to have the engineer 

Hoist with his own petar. Act iii. Sc. 4 

Diseases desperate grown, 
By desperate appliance are relieved, 
Or not at all. Act iv. Sc. 3. 



SHAKSPEARE. 113 

Sure, He that made us with such large dis- 
course, 
Looking before, and after, gave us not 
That capability and godlike reason, 
To fust in us unused. Act iv. Sc. L 

Greatly to find quarrel hi a straw, 
When honor 's at the stake. Act iv. Sc. 4. 

So full of artless jealousy is guilt, 

It spills itself in fearing to be spilt. Act iv. Sc. 5. 

We know what we are, but know not what we 
may be. Act iv. Sc. 5. 

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, 
But in battalions ! Act iv. Sc. 5. 

There 's such divinity doth hedge a king, 
That treason can but peep to what it would. 

Act iv. Sc. 5. 

There 's rosemary, that 's for remembrance ; and 

there is pansies, that 's for thoughts. Act iv. Sc. 5. 

A very riband in the cap of youth. Act iv. Sc. 7. 

Cudgel thy brains no more about it. Act v. Sc. 1. 

One, that was a woman, sir, but rest her soul, 
she 's dead. Act v. Sic, 1. 



114 SHAKSPEARE. 

How absolute the knave is ! we must speak by 
the card or equivocation will undo us. Act v. Sc. 1. 

The age is grown so picked, that the toe of the 
peasant comes so near the heel of the courtier, ho 
galls his kibe. Act v. Sc. I 

Alas, poor Yorick ! I knew him, Horatio a 
fellow of infinite jest ; of most excellent fancy. 

Act v. Sc. 1. 

Where be your gibes now ? your gambols ? 
your songs ? your flashes of merriment, that were 
wont to set the table on a roar ? Act v. Sc. 1. 

To what base uses we may return, Horatio ! 

Act v. Sc. 1. 
Imperial Crcsar, dead, and turned to clay, 
Might stop a hole to keep the wind away. 

Act v. Sc. 1. 
Sweets to the sweet. Act v. Sc. 1. 

For, though I am not splenetive and rash, 
Yet have I in me something dangerous. 

Act v. Sc. 1. 
Let Hercules himself do what he may, 
The cat will mew, and dog will have his day. 

Act v. Sc. I. 
There ^s a divinity that shapes our ends, • 
Rough-hew- them how we will. Act v. Sc. 5 



SEAKSPEARE. 115 

Into a towering passion. Act v. Sc. 2. 

The phrase would be more german to the mat- 
ter, if we could carry a cannon by our sides. 

Act v. Sc. 2. 

There is a special providence in the fall of a 

sparrow. Act v. Sc. 2. 

1 have shot my arrow o'er the house, 

And hurt my brother. Act v. Sc. 2. 

A hit, a very palpable hit. Act v. Sc. 2. 

Report me and my cause aright. Act v. Sc. 2. 



That never set a squadron in the field, 

Nor the division of a battle knows. Act i. Sc. 1. 

Whip me such honest knaves. Act i. Sc. 1. 

But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve 

For daws to peck at. Act i. Sc. 1. 

The wealthy curled darlings of our nation. 

Act i. Sc. 2. 
Alost potent, grave, and reverend seigniors. 

Act i Sc. 3, 



116 SHAKSPEARE. 

The very head and front of my offending 
Hath this extent, no more. Rude am I in my 
speech. Act i. Sc. 3. 

In the tented field. Act i. Sc 3. 

I Avill a round, unvarnished tale deliver 

Of my whole course of love. Act i. Sc. 3. 

The battles, sieges, fortunes, 
That I have passed. Act i. Sc. 3. 



Wherein I spoke of most disastrous chances, 
Of moving accidents, by flood and field, 
Of hair-breadth 'scapes i' the imminent deadly 
breach. Act i. Sc. 3. 

Antres vast, and deserts idle. Act i. Sc. 3. 

The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads 

Do grow beneath their shoulders. These things 

to hear,* 
"Would Desdemona seriously incline. Act i. Sc. 3. 

And often did beguile her of her tears. Act i. Sc. 3 

My story being done, 
She gave me for my pains a world of sighs : 

* The folios have this to hear. 



SEAKSPEARE. 117 

She swore, In faith, 't was strange, 't was passing 

strange ; 
'T was pitiful, 't was wondrous pitiful : 
She wished she had not heard it ; yet she wished 
That Heaven had made her such a man. 

Act i. Sc. 3. 
Upon this hint I spake : 
She loved me for the dangers I had passed, 
And I loved her that she did pity them. 

Act i. Sc. 3J 
I do perceive here a divided duty. Act i. Sc. 3. 

The rohbed that smiles steals something from the 
thief. Act i. Sc. 3. 

Put money in thy purse. Act i. Sc. 3. 

Framed to make women false. Act i. Sc. 3. 

For I am nothing, if not critical. Act ii. Sc. 1. 

lago. To suckle fools, and chronicle small beer. 
Des. most lame and impotent conclusion ! 

Act ii. Sc. 1. 
Egregiously an ass. Act ii. Sc. 1. 

Potations pottle deep. " Act ii. Sc. 3. 

King Stephen was a worthy peer, 
His breeches cost him but a crown ; 



118 SRAKSPEARE. 

He held them sixpence all too dear, 
With that he called the. tailor— >-lo.wn.* 

Act ii. Sc. 3, 
Silence that dreadful bell ; it frights the isle 
From her propriety. Act ii. Sc. 3. 

Your name is great 
In mouths of wisest censure. Act ii. Sc. 3. 

lago. What, are you hurt, lieutenant ? 

Gas. Ay, past all surgery. Act ii. Sc. 3. 

thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no 
name to be known by, let us call thee devil ! 

Act ii. Sc. 3. 

that men should put an enemy in their mouths, 
to steal away their brains ! Act ii. Sc. 3. 

Gas. Every inordinate cup is unblessed, and the 
ingredient is a devil. 

lago. Come, come ; good wine is a good fa- 
miliar creature, if it be well used. Act ii. Sc. 3. 

Perdition catch my soul, 
But I do love thee ! and when I love thee not, 
Chaos is come again.f Act ill. Sc. 3. 

* Though these lines are from an old ballad given in 
Percy they are much altered by Shakspeare, and it is his 
version we sing in the nursery. 

f For he being dead, with him is beauty slain, 
And, beauty dead, black chaos comes again. 

Venus and Adonis. 



SHAKSPEARE. 119 

Good name, in man and woman, dear my lord, 

Is the immediate jewel of their souls. 

Who steals my purse, steals trash ; 't is something, 
nothing ; 

'T was mine, 't is his, and has been slave to thou- 
sands ; 

But he that filches from me my good name 

Robs me of that which not enriches him, 

And makes me poor indeed. Act iii. Sc. 3. 

O, beware, my lord, of jealousy ; 
It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock 
The meat it feeds on. Act iii. Sc. 3. 

But oh ! what damned minutes tells he o'er, 
Who dotes, yet doubts ; suspects, yet strongly 
loves ! * Act iii. Sc. 3. 

Poor and content is rich, and rich enough. 

Act iii. Sc. 3. 
To be once in doubt, 
Is once to be resolved. Act iii. Sc. 3. 

If 1 do prove her haggard, 
Though that her jesses were my dear heart-strings, 
I 'd whistle her off, and let her down the wind 
To prey at fortune. Act iii. Sc 3. 

Declined into the vale of years. Act iii. Sc. 3. 

* The folios have, soundly loves. 



120 SHAKSPEARE. 

That we can call these delicate creatures ours, 
And not their appetites. Act iii. Sc. 3. 

Trifles, light as air, 
Are, to the jealous, confirmations strong 
As proofs of holy writ. Act iii. Sc. 3. 

Not poppy, nor mandragora, 
Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world, 
Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep 
Which thou ow'dst yesterday. Act iii. Sc. 3. 

He that is robbed, not wanting Avhat is stolen, 
Let him not know it, and he 's not robbed at all. 

Act iii. Sc. 3 
O, now, forever, 
Farewell the tranquil mind ! farewell content ! 
Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars, 
That make ambition virtue ! O farewell ! 
Farewell the neighing steed, and the shrill trump, 
The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife. 

Act iii. Sc. 3. 
Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war. 

Act iii. Sc. 3. 

Othello's occupation 's gone ! Act iii. Sc. 3, 

No hinge, nor loop, 
To hang a doubt on. Act iii. Sc. 3. 

Give me the ocular proof. Act iii Sc. 3. 



SHAKSPEARE. 121 

On horror's head horrors accumulate. Act iii. Sc. 3. 

But this denoted a foregone conclusion. 

Act iii. Sc. 3. 
They laugh that win. Act iv. Sc. 1. 

But yet the pity of it, Iago ! Iago, the pity 
of it, Iago. Act iv. Sc. 1. 

Steeped me in poverty to the very lips. 

Act iv. Sc. 2. 
But, alas ! to make me 
The fixed figure for the time of scorn 
To point his slow, and moving finger at. 

Act iv. Sc. 2. 
And put in every honest hand a whip, 
To lash the rascal naked through the world. 

Act iv. Sir. 2. 
'T is neither here nor there. Act iv. Sc. 3. 

This is the night 
That either makes me or fordoes me quite. 

Act v. Sc. 1, 
He hath a daily beauty in his life. Act v. Sc. 1. 

One entire and perfect chrysolite. Act v. Sc. 2, 

I have done the state some service, and they 
know it. Act v. S>: 2 



122 SHAKSPEARE. 

Speak of me as I am ; nothing extenuate, 

Nor set down aught in malice. Then must you 

speak 
Of one that loved not wisely, but too well. 

Act v. Sc. 2. 
Of one, whose hand, 
Like the base Judean, threw a pearl away, 
Richer than all his tribe. Act v. Sc. 2. 

Albeit unused to the melting mood. Act v. Sc. 2. 



SONNETS. 

And stretched metre of an antique song. 

Sonnet xvii. 
The painful warrior, famoused for fight, 
After a thousand victories once foiled, 
Is from the books of honor razed quite, 
And all the rest forgot for which he toiled. 

Sonnet xxy. 
And simple truth miscalled simplicity, 
And captive good attending captain ill. 

Sonnet lxvi. 
My nature is subdued 
To what it works in, like the dyer's hand. 

Sonnet cxi. 
Let me not to the marriage of true minds 
Admit impediments. Love is not love 
Which alters when it alteration finds. Sonnet cxvi. 



TUSSER. — STILL. 123 

THOMAS TUSSER. 1523-1580. 
Except wind stands as never it stood, 
It is an ill wind turns none to good.* 

Moral Reflections on the Wind. 
At Christmas play, and make good cheer, 
For Christmas comes but once a year. 

Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry. Chap, xii- 
Such mistress, such Nan, 
Such master, such man. 

Chap, xxxviii. 
'T is merry in hall, 
"When beards wag all.f Chap. xlvi. 

Look ere thou leap, see ere thou go. 

Chap. Ivii. 



BISHOP STILL. (JOHN.) 1543-1607. 

I cannot eat but little meat, 

My stomach is not good ; 
But sure I think that I can drink 

With liim that wears a hood. 

Ga?nmer Gurton's Needle. Act ii. 
Back and side go bare, go bare, 

Both foot and hand go cold ; 
But, belly, God send thee good ale enough, 

Whether it be new or old. ibid, 

* See Proverbs, page 408. 
f Merry swithe it is in halle, 
When the beards waveth alle. 

Adam Davie, 1312. Life of Alexander. 



124 MARL WE. — RALEIGH. 

CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE. 1565-1593, 
Who ever loved that loved not at first sight ? * 

Hero and Leander, 
Come live with me, and be my love, 
And we will all the pleasures pi*ove 
That valleys, groves, and hills, and fields, 
Woods, or steepy mountains, yield. 

The Passionate Shepherd to Ms Lore. 
Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships, 
And burnt the topmast toAvers of Ilium ? 
Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss. 
Her lips suck forth my soul ! see where it flies. 

Faustus. 



SIR WALTER RALEIGH. 1552-1618. 

If all the world and love were young, 
And truth in every shepherd's tongue, 
These pretty pleasures might me move 
To live with thee, and be thy love. 

The Nymph's Reply to the Passionate Shepherd. 
Silence in love bewrays more woe 

Than words, though ne'er so witty ; 
A beggar that is dumb, you know, 

May challenge double pity. The Silent Lover. 

Methought I saw the grave where Laura lay. 

Verses to Edmund Spenser. 

* Quoted by Shakspeare. As You Like It. Act III. Sc. 5. 



S YL J r ES TER. — BARN FIELD. — GEE I r lLLE. 1 2 -3 

JOSHUA SYLVESTER. 1563-1618. 

Go, Soul, the body's guest, 

Upon a thankless errand ! 
Fear not to touch the best : 

The truth shall be thy warrant, 
Go, since I needs must die, 
And give the world the lie. 

The Soul's Eirand.* 



RICHARD BARXEIELD. [Born circa 1570.) 

As it fell upon a day, 
In the merry month of May, 
Sitting in a pleasant shade 
Which a grove of myrtles made. 

Address to the XUjIdingaleA 



FULKE GREVILLE, LORD BROOKE. 1554-1628. 

wearisome condition of humanity ! 

Mustapka. Act v. Sc. 4. 
And out of mind as soon as out of sight. % 

Sonnet lvi. 

* Sylvester is now generally regarded as the author of 
" The Soul's Errand," long attributed to Raleigh. 

t This song, often attributed to Shakspeare, is now confi- 
dently assigned to Barnfield; it is found in his collection of 
Poems in Divers Humours, published in 1598. 

| And when he is out of sight quickly also is he out of mind. 
Kempis. Imitation of Christ. B. i. Ch. 23. 



126 WO TTON. — D ONNE. 

RIR HENRY WOTTON. 1568-1639. 

How bappy is he born or taught, 
That serveth not another's will ; 
Whose armor is his honest thought, 
And simple truth bis utmost skill ! 

The Character of a Happy Life.. 
Lord of himself, though not of lands ; 
And having nothing, yet hath all. Ibid. 

You meaner beauties of the night, 

That poorly satisfy our eyes 

More by your number than your light ! 

To his JUisti-ess, the Queen of Bohemia. 

I am but a gatherer and disposer of other men's 

Stuff. Preface to the Elements of Architecture.* 



DR. JOHN DONNE. 1573-1631. 
We understood 
Her by her sight ; her pure and eloquent blood 
Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought, 
That one might almost say her body thought. 

Funeral Elegies on the Progress of the Soul. 

She and comparisons are odious.t 

Elegy 8. The Comparison. 

* lieliquice Wottoniamz. 

t Cf. Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy, Pt. iii. Sc. 3, Mem. 
1, Subs. 2. 



JON SON. 127 

BEN JONSON. 1574-1637. 
Drink to me only with thine eyes, 

And I will pledge with mine ;' 
Or leave a kiss but in the cup, 
And I '11 not look for wine.* 

The Forest. To 'Jdu\. 

Still to be neat, still to be drest 
As you were going to a feast. 

The Silent Woman. Act i. Sc. 1. 

Give me a look, give me a face, 
That makes simplicity a grace. 
Robes loosely flowing, hair as free ; 
Such sweet neglect more taketh me, 
Than all th' adulteries of art ; 
They strike mine eyes, but not my heart. 

Ibid. 

In small proportion Ave just beauties see, 
And in short measures life may perfect be. 

Good Life, Long Life, 

Underneath this stone doth lie 
As much beauty as could die ; 
Which in life did harbor give 
To more virtue than doth live. 

Epitaph on Elizabeth. 

# ''E/xol <5e fiovoic irpomve rolq o/a/iaaiv El de fivv- 

Xti, role x«A£(7i zpoaoepovaa, nX^pov (pL?j]fiu.Tuv to EKTZufj.il, 
<al ovtuc didov. Philostratus. Letter xxiv. 



128 JONSON. 

Underneath this sable hearse 
Lies the subject of all verse, 
■Sidney's sister, Pembroke's mother. 
Death ! ere thou hast slain another, 
Learu'd and fair and good as she, 
Time shall throw a dart at thee. 

Epitaph on the Countess of Pembroke. 

Soul of the age ! 
The applause ! delight ! the wonder of our stage ! 
My Shakspeare rise ! I will not lodge thee by 
Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie 
A little further, to make thee a room.* 

To the Memory of Shakspeare. 
Small Latin, and less Greek. ibid. 



Sweet swan of Avon ! ibid. 

Get money ; still get money, boy ; 
No matter by what means.f 

Every Man in his Humor. Act ii. Sc. 3. 

* Cf. Basse, p. 160. 

t Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace; 
If not, by any means get wealth and place. 

TurE. Horace, Ep. i. Book 1. 



BE A UM OX T. — FEE TCIIER. — CARE W. 129 

FRANCIS BEAUMONT. 1585-1616. 

What things have we seen 
Done at the Mermaid! heard words that have been 
So nimble and so full of subtile flame, 
As if that every one from whence they came 
Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, 
And resolved to live a fool the rest 
Of his dull life. Letter to Ben Jonson. 



JOHN FLETCHER. 1576-1625. 

Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, 
Our fatal shadows that walk by us still. 



Upon an " Honest Man's Fortune. 



THOMAS CAREW. 1589-1639. 
He that loves a rosy cheek, 

Or a coral lip admires, 
Or from star-like eyes doth seek 

Fuel to maintain his flres ; 
As old Time makes these decay, 
So his flames must waste away. 

Disdain Returned. 

Then fly betimes, for only they 

Conquer love, that run away. 

Conquest by Flight. 



130 VERB UR T. — Wl THER. 

SIR THOMAS OVERBURY. 1581-1613. 
In part to blame is she, 
Which hath without consent bin only tride : 
He comes to neere that comes to be denide.* 

A Wife. St. 3G. 



GEORGE WITHER. 1588-1667. 
Shall I, wasting in despair, 

Die because a woman 's fair ? 
Or make pale my cheeks with care, 

'Cause another's rosy are ? 
Be she fairer than the day, 
Or the flow'ry meads in May, 

If she be not so to me, 

What care I how fair- she be ? f 

The Shepherd's Resolution 

* Cf. Montague, page 213. 

t Shall I like a hermit dwell 
On a rock or in a cell, 
Calling home the smallest part 
That is missing of my heart', 
To bestow it where I may 
Meet a rival every day ? 
If she undervalue me 
What care I how fair she he ? 

Attributed to Sir Walter Raleigh 



Q CARLES. — BERBER T. 13 1 

FRANCIS QUARLES. 1592-1G44. 

Be wisely worldly, but not worldly wise. 

Emblems. Book ii. 2. 
This house is to be let for life or years ; 
Her rent is sorrow, and her income tears ; 
Cupid 't has long stood void ; her bills make 

known, 
She must be dearly let, or let alone. 

Ibid. Book ii. 10. 



GEORGE HERBERT. 1593-1632. 
Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, 
The bridal of the earth and sky. Mrtue. 

Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, 

A box where sweets compacted lie. Ibid. 

Only a sweet and virtuous soul, 

Like seasoned timber, never gives. ibid, 

Like summer friends, 
Flies of estate and sunshine. The Ansiver. 

A servant with this clause 

Makes drudgery divine ; 
Who sweeps a room as for thy laws J 

Makes that and the action fine. The Elirir 



132 SUCKLING. 

A verse may find him who a sermon flies, 
And turn delight into a sacrifice. 

The Church Porch. 
Dare to be true, nothing can need a lie ; 
A fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.* 

Ibid. 
The worst speak something good ; if all want 

sense, 
God takes a text, and preacheth Pa-ti-ence. Ibid. 

Bibles laid open, millions of surprises. Sin. 

Man is one world, and hath 
Another to attend him. Man. 

If goodness lead him not, yet weariness 

May toss him to my breast. The Pulley. 



SIR JOHN SUCKLING. 1609-1641. 
Her feet beneath her petticoat, 
Like little mice stole in and out, 

As if they feared the light ; 
But oh ! she dances such a way ! 
No sun upon an Easter-day 

Is half SO fine a sight. On a Wedding. 

* And he that does one fault at first 
And lies to hide it, makes it two. 

Watts. Against Lying. 



HERRI CK. 133 

Her lips were red, and one was thin, 
Compared with that was next her chin ; 
Some hee had stung it newly. ibid 

Why so pale and wan, fond lover, 

Prithee, why so pale ? 
Will, when looking well can 't move her, 

Looking ill prevail ? 

Prithee, why so pale ? Song. 

'T is expectation makes a hlessing dear ; 
Heaven were not heaven, if we knew what it 
were. Against Fruition. 



ROBERT HERRICK. 1591-1660. 

Some asked me where the Rubies grew, 

And nothing I did say ; 
But with my finger pointed to 

The lips of Julia. 

The Rock of Rubies, and the Quarrie of Pearls, 

Some asked how Pearls did grow, and where ? 

Then spoke I to my Girl, 
To part her lips, and showed them there 

The quarelets of Pearl. Ibid, 

Her pretty feet, like snails, did creep 
A little out, and then, 



134 LOVELACE. 

As if they played at Bo-peep, 

Did soon draw in again.* On her Feet. 

Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, 

Old Time is still a-flying, 
And this same flower, that smiles to-day, 

To-morrow will be dying.f 

To the Virgins to make much of Time. 

Her eyes the glow-worm lend thee, 
The shooting stars attend thee ; 
And the elves also, 
Whose little eyes glow 
Like the sparks of fir j, befriend thee. 

Night Piece to Julia. 
Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt, 
Nothing 's so hard but search will find it out. 

Seek and Find. 



RICHARD LOVELACE. 1618-1658. 
Oh ! could you view the melody 
Of every grace, 
And music of her face,! 
You 'd drop a tear ; 
Seeing more harmony 
* Oh if a man could but fasten his eyes to her feet, as they 
yteal in and out, and play at bo-peep under her petticoats. — 
Congkevk. Love for Love. Act-i. Sc. 5. 

f Let us crown ourselves with rosebuds, before they be 
withered. — Wisdom of Srfomon, ii. 8. 

\ The mind, the music breathing from her face. 

I3Yiitoi. Bride of Abydos. St. 6. 



SEIRLE Y. — CRASH A W. 13 5 

In her bright eye, 
Than now you hear. Orpheus to Beasts 

I could not love thee, dear, so much, 
Loved I not honor more. 

To Lucasta on going to the Wars 
When flowing cups run swiftly round 
With no allaying Thames. 

To Allheafrom Prison. 
Stone walls do not a prison make, 

Kor iron bars a cage ; 
Minds innocent, and quiet, take 
That for an hermitage. 

Ibid. 



JAMES SHIRLEY. 1596-1666. 
Only the actions of the just 
Smell sweet and blossom in the dust.* 

Contention of A j ax and Ulysses. Sc. iii. 



RICHARD CRASHAW. Circa 1616-1650. 

The conscious water saw its God and blushed.! 
Translation of Epigram on John, ii 

* The sweet remembrance of the just 
Shall flourish when he sleeps in dust. 

Psalm xci. 4. Common Prayer 
t Nympha pudica Deum vidit et erubuit. 

Aqua in vinum versa. 



1 3 6 DENE AM. — DEKKER. 

Whoe'er she be, 

That not impossible she, 

That shall command my heart and me. 

Wishes to Ms supposed Mistress 
A bappy soul, that all the way 
To heaven hath a summer's day. 

In praise of Leseius' Rule of Health. 
Sydneian showers of sweet discourse. Ibid. 



SIE JOHN DENHAM. 1615-1668. 

could I flow like thee, and make thy stream 

My great example, as it is my theme ! 

Though deep, yet clear ; though gentle, yet not 

dull ; 
Strong without rage ; without o'erflowing full. 

Cooper's Hill. Line 189. 

Actions of the last age are like Almanacs of 
the last year. The Sophy. A Tragedy. 



THOMAS DEKKER. 1638. 

And though mine arm should conquer twentj 

worlds, 
There 's a lean fellow beats all conquerors. 

Old Fortunatm 

The best of men 
That e'er wore earth about him was a suff'erei ; 



COWLEY. 137 

A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit. 
The first true gentleman, that ever breathed.* 

The Honest Whore. Part i. Act i. Sc. 12 
We are ne'er like angels till our passion dies. 

Ibid. Part ii. Act i. Sc. 2. 



ABEAHAM COWLEY. 1618-1667. 
Th' adorning thee with so much art 

Is but a barb'rous skill ; 
'T is like the poisoning of a dart, 

Too apt before to kill. The Waiting Maid. 

What shall I do to be forever known, 

And make the age to come my own ? The Motto 

His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might 
Be wrong ; his life, I'm sure, was in the right. 

On the Death of Crashaw. 

God the first garden made, and the first city 

Cain.f The Garden. Essay v. 

We spent them not in toys, in lusts, or wine ; 

But search of deep philosophy, 

Wit, eloquence, and poetry ; 
Arts which I loved, for they, my friend, were thine. 

On the Death of Mr. William Harvey. 

* Of the offspring of the gentilman Jafeth, come Ilabra- 
ham, Moyses, Aron, and the profettys; and also the Kyng of 
the right lyne of Mary, of whom that gentilman Jhesu.s was> 
Some. — Juliana Berneks. Hernllic Blazonry. 

f God made the country, and man made the tovn. 

Cowi'EK. 77/6 Task. Book i 



138 WALLER. 

The thirsty earth soaks up the rain 
And drinks and gapes for drink again ; 
The plants suck in the earth, and are 
With constant drinking fresh and fair. 

From Anacreon 
Why 
Should every creature drink but I? 
Why, man of morals, tell me why ? Ibid. 

His time is forever, everywhere his place. 

Friendship in Absence. 
Hence ye profane, I hate ye all, 
Both the great vulgar and the small. 

Horace. Booh iii. Ode 1 



EDMUND WALLER. 1605-1687. 
The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed,* 
Lets hi new light through chinks that time has 

made. 
Stronger by weakness, wiser men become, 
As they draw near to their eternal home. 

Verses upon his Divine Poesy. 
Under the tropic is our language spoke, 
And part of Flanders hath received our yoke. 

Upon the Dt-alh of the Lord Protector. 
A narrow compass ! and yet there 
Dwelt all that 's good, and all that 's fair ! 

* Drawing near her death, she sent most pious thoughts ns 
harbingers to heaven; and her soul saw a glimpse of happi- 
ness through the chinks of her siekness-broken bo.lv. 

Fuller. JIuhj and Profune States. Hook i. eh. ii. 



MONTROSE. 139 

Give me but what this ribbon bound, 
Take all the rest the sun goes round. 

On a Girdle, 
How small a part of time they share 
That are so wondrous sweet and fair. 

Go, lovely Rose, 
That eagle's fate and mine are one, 

Which, on the shaft that made him die, 
Espied a feather of his own, 

Wherewith he wont to soar so high.* 

To a Lady singing a Sony of his composing. 



MARQUIS OF MONTROSE. 1612-1650. 

He either fears his fate too much, 

Or his deserts are small, 
Who dares not put it to the touch 

To gain or lose it all. 

Song "My Dear and only Love." 
I '11 make thee glorious by my peu, 
And famous by my sword. n d. 

* So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain, 
No more through rolling clouds to soar again, 
Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart, 
And winged the shaft that quivered in his heart. 

Byrox. English Bank. 
Like a young eagle, who has lent his plume 
To fledge the shaft by which he meets his doom; 
See their own feathers pluck'd, to wing the dart 
Which rank corruption destines for their heart. 

T. Moore. Corruption, 



140 MILTON. 

JOHN MILTON. 1608-1674. 
PARADISE LOST. 

Of Man's first disobedience and the fruit 
Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste 
Brought death into the world and all our woe. 

Book i. Line. 1. 
Or if Sion-hill 
Delight thee more, and Siloa's brook, that flowed 
Fast by the oracle of God. Book i. Line 10. 

Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme. 

Book i. Line 16. 
"What in me is dark 
Illumine, what is low raise and support ; 
That, to the height of this great argument, 
I may assert eternal Providence, 
And justify the ways of God to men. 

Booki Line 22. 

As far as Angel's ken. Book i. Line 59. 

Yet from those flames 
No light, but rather darkness visible. 

Book i. Line 62. 

Where peace 
And rest can never dwell, hope never comes 
That comes to all. Book i. Line 65. 

What though the field be lost, 
All is not lost ; the unconquerable will, 



MILTON. 141 

And study of revenge, immortal hate, 
And courage never to submit or yield. 

Book i. Line 105. 
To be weak is miserable 
Doing or suffering. • Booh i. Line 157. 

And out of good still to find means of evil. 

Book i. Line 165. 
Farewell happy fields, 
Where joy forever dwells ! hail, horrors ! hail. 

Book i. Line 249. 
A mind not to be changed by place or time. 
The mind is its own place, and in itself 
Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven. 

Book i. Line 253. 

Here we may reign secure, and in my choice 
To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell : 
Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven. 

Book i. Line 261. 
Heard so oft 
In worst extremes, and on the perilous edge 
Of battle. Book i. Line 275. 

His spear, to equal which the tallest pine 
Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast 
Of some great ammiral, were but a wand. 

Book i. Line 292 

Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks 
In Vallombrosa, where the Etrurian shades 
High over-arched imbower Book i. Line 303 



142 MILTON. 

Awake ! arise ! or be forever fallen ! 

Book i. Line 330 
Spirits when they please 
Can either sex assume, or both. Book i. Line 423. 

Execute their airy purposes. Book i. Line 430 

When night 
Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons 
Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine. 

Book i. Line 500. 
Th' imperial ensign, which, full high advanced, 
Shone like a meteor streaming to the wind. 

Book i. Line 536. 
Sonorous metal blowing martial sounds : 
At which the universal host up-sent 
A shout that tore Hell's concave, and beyond 
Frighted the reign of Chaos and old Night. 

Book i. Line 540. 
In perfect phalanx, to the Dorian mood 
Of flutes and soft recorders. Book i. Line 550. 

His form had yet not lost 
All her original brightness, nor appeared 
Less than Archangel ruined, and the excess 
Of glory obscured. Book i. Line 591. 

In. dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds 

On half the nations, and with fear of change 

Perplexes monarchs. Book i. Line 597. 



MILT OX. 143 

Thrice he assayed, and thrice, in spite of scorn, 
Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth. 

Book i. Line 619 
Who overcomes 
By force, hath overcome but half his foe. 

Book i. Line 618 
Mammon, the least erected spirit that fell 
From Heaven ; for ev n in Heaven his looks and 

thoughts 
"Were always downward bent, admiring more 
The riches of Heaven's pavement, trodden gold, 
Than aught divine or holy else enjoy'd 
In vision beatilic. Book i. Line 679. 

Let none admire 
That riches grow in Hell : that soil may best 
Deserve the precious bane. Book i. Line 690. 

A fabric huge 
Rose, like an exhalation. Book i. Line 710. 

From morn 
To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, 
A summer's day. Book i. Line 742 

Faery elves, 
"Whose midnight revels, by a forest-side, 
Or fountain, some belated peasant sees, 
Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon 
Sits arbitress. Book i. Line 781 



144 MILTON. 

High on a throne of royal state, which far 
Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, 
Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand 
Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold, 
Satan exalted sat, by merit raised 
To that bad eminence. Book ii. Line 1 

Surer to prosper than prosperity 

Could have assured us. Book ii. Line 39 

The strongest and the fiercest spirit 
That fought in Heaven, now fiercer by despair. 

Book ii. Line 44 
Rather than be less 
Cared not to be at all. Book ii. Line 47. 

My sentence is for open war. Book ii. Line 51. 

That in our proper motion we ascend 

Up to our native seat : descent and fall 

To US is adverse. Book ii. Line 75 

When the scourge 
Inexorable, and the torturing hour 
Call us to penance. Book ii. Line 90. 

But all was false and hollow, though his tongue 
Dropped manna, and could make the worse appear 
The better reason, to perplex and dash 
Maturest counsels. Book ii. Line 112. 



MILT OX. 145 

The ethereal mould 
[n capable of stain, would soon expel 
Her mischief, and purge off the baser fire, 
Victorious. Thus repulsed, our final hope 
Ts flat despair. Book ii. Line 139 

For who would lose, 
Though full of pain, this intellectual being, 
Those thoughts that wander through eternity, 
To perish rather, swallowed up and lost 
Iu the wide womb of uncreated night ? 

Book ii. Line 146. 
Unrespited, unpitied, unreprieved. Book ii. Line 185. 

The never ending flight 
Of future days. Book ii. Line 221. 

With grave 
Aspect he rose, and in his rising seemed 
A pillar of state ; deep on his front engraven 
Deliberation sat, and public care ; 
And princely counsel in his face yet shone, 
Majestic though in ruin. Sage he stood, 
With Atlanteari shoulders, fit to bear 
The weight of mightiest monarchies ; his look 
Drew audience and attention still as night 
Or summer's noontide air. Book ii. Line 300. 

The palpable obscure. Book ii Line 406 

10 



146 MILTON. 

Oh, shame to men ! devil with devil damned 

Firm concord holds, men only disagree 

Of creatures rational. Book ii. Line 496 

In discourse more sweet, 
For eloquence the soul, song charms the sense, 
Others apart sat on a hill retired, 
In thoughts more elevate, ami reason'd high 
Of providence, foreknowledge, will and fate ; 
Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, 
And found no end, in wandering mazes lost. 

Book ii. Line 555. 
Vain wisdom all, and false philosophy. 

Book ii. Line 565 
Arm the obdured breast 
With stubborn patience as with triple steel. 

Book ii. Line 568. 
O'er many a frozen, many a fiery Alp, 
Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades 
of death. Book ii. Line 620. 

Gorgons, and Hydras, and Chimeras dire. 

Book ii. Line 628. 
The other shape, 
If shape it might be called that shape had none 
Distinguishable in member, joint or limb, 
Or substance might be called that shadow seemed, 
For each seemed either — black it stood as Nighl, 
Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as Hell, 
Aid shook a dreadful dart. Book ii. Line 670 



HILTON. 147 

Whence and what art thou, execrable shape ? 

Book ii. Line 681. 
Death 
Grinned horrible a ghastly smile, to hear 
His famine should be filled. Booh ii. Line 845. 

"Where eldest Night 
And Chaos, ancestors of nature, hold 
Eternal anarchy amidst the noise 
Of endless wars. Booh ii. Line 894. 

With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout, 

Confusion worse confounded. Booh ii. Line 995. 

Hail, holy light ! offspring of Heaven first- 
born. Booh iii. Line 1. 

Thus with the year 
Seasons return ; but not to me returns 
Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, 
Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, 
Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine. 

Book iii. Line 40. 
Since called 
The Paradise of Fools, to few unknown. 

Booh iii. Line 495. 
At whose sight all the stars 
Hide their diminished heads. 

Booh iv. Line 34 



148 MILTON. 

And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep, 
Still threatening to devour me, opens wide, 
To which the hell I suffer seems- a heaven. 

Book iv. Line 76 
So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear. 
Farewell remorse ; all good to me is lost. 
Evil, be thou my good. Booh iv. Line 108. 

That practised falsehood under saintly shew, 
Deep malice to conceal. Booh iv. Line 122. 

For contemplation he and valor formed, 
For softness she, and sweet attractive grace. 

Booh iv. Line 297. 
His fair large front and eye sublime declared 
Absolute rule ; and hyacinthine locks 
Round from his parted forelock manly hung 
Clustering, but not beneath his shoulders broad. 

Booh iv. Line 300. 
Adam the goodliest man of men since born 
His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve. 

Booh iv. Line 823. 
And with necessity, 
The tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deeds. 

Booh iv. Line 393. 
Imparadised in one another's arms. 

Book iv. Line 500. 
Now came still evening on, and twilight grey 
Had in her sober livery all things clad. 

Booh iv. Line 598 



MILTON. 149 

With thee conversing, I forget all time ; 

All seasons and their change, all please alike. 

Book iv. Line 639. 
Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth 
Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep. 

Book iv. Line 677. 
Hail, wedded love ! mysterious law, true source 
Of human offspring. Book iv. Line 750. 

Him thus intent Ithuriel with his spear 

Touched lightly. Book iv. Line 810. 

Not to know me argues yourselves unknown, 
The lowest of your throng. Book iv. Line 830. 

All hell broke loose. Book iv. Line 918. 

Now morn, her rosy steps in the eastern clime 
Advancing, sowed the earth with orient pearl. 

Book v. Line 1. 
Good, the more 
Communicated, more abundant grows.* 

Book v. Line 71. 
These are thy glorious works, Parent of good ! 

Book v. Line 153. 
A wilderness of sweets. Book v. Line 294. 

Another morn 
Risen on mid-noon. Book v. Line 310. 

* That good diffused may more abundant grow. 

Cowfer. Conversation 



152 MILTON. 

And over them triumphant Death his dart 
Shook, but delayed to strike, though oft invoked. 
Book xi. Line 491 
The world was all before them, where to choose 
Their place of rest, and Providence their guide. 
Book xii. Line 64G 



PARADISE REGAINED. 

Of whom to be dispraised were no small praise. 

Book ill. Line 56 
Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts 
And eloquence. Book iv. Line 240. 

Thence to the famous orators repair, 
Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence 
Wielded at will that fierce democraty, 
Shook the arsenal, and fulmined over Greece, 
To Macedon, and Artaxerxes' throne. 

Book iv. Line 2G7 
As children gathering pebbles on the shore. 

Book iv. Line 330 



SAMSON AGONISTES. 

And silent as the moon, 

When she deserts the night 

Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. Line 87. 

Ran on imbattled armies clad in iron. Line 129 



MILTON. 153 

Just are the ways of God, 
And justifiable to men. Line 293. 

What boots it at one gate to make defence, 

And at another to let in the foe ? Line 560, 

He 's gone, and who knows how he may report 
Thy words, by adding fuel to the flame ? 

Line 1350. 
For evil news rides post, while good news bates. 

Line 1538. 
Tame villatic fowl. Line 1695. 



Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot, 
Which men call earth. Line 5. 

That golden key 
That opes the palace of eternity. Line 13. 

Midnight shout and revelry, 

Tipsy dance and jollity. Line 1 33. 

A thousand fantasies 
Begin to throng into my memory, 
Of calling shapes, and beckoning sbadows-dire, 
And airy tongues, that syllable men's names 
On sands, and shores, and desert wildernesses. 

Line 205 



154 MILTON. 

Was I deceived, or did a sable cloud 
Turn forth her silver lining on the night ? 

Line 221 
Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould 
Breathe such divine, enchanting ravishment ? 

Line 244. 
How sweetly did they float upon the wings 
Of silence, through the empty-vaulted night, 
At every fall smoothing the raven-down 
Of darkness till it smiled. Line 249. 

Who, as they sung, would take the prisoned soul - 
And lap it in Elysium. Line 256. 

Virtue could see to do what virtue would 

By her own radiant light, though sun and moon 

Were in the flat sea simk. Line 373. 

He that has light within his own clear breast 
May sit i' th' centre and enjoy bright day ; 
But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts 
Benighted walks under the mid-day sun. Line, 381 

So dear to heaven is saintly chastity, 

That, when a soul is found sincerely so, 

A thousand liveried angels lackey her. Line 453 

How charming is divine philosophy ! 

Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose ; 



MILTON. 155 

But musical as is Apollo's lute,* 

And a perpetual feast of nectared sweets, 

Where no crude surfeit reigns. Line 476. 

I was all ear, 
And took in strains that might create a soul 
Under the ribs of Death. Line 560. 

What need a vermeil-tinctured lip for that, 
Love-darting eyes, or tresses like the morn ? 

Line 752. 
Enjoy your dear wit, and gay rhetoric, 
That hath so well been taught her dazzling fence. 

Line 790. 
His rod reversed, 
And backward mutters of dissevering power. 

Line 816. 
But now my task is smoothly done, 
I can fly, or I can run. Line 1012. 



LTCIDAS. 

I come to pluck your berries, harsh and crude, 

And, with forced fingers rude, 

Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. 

Line 3. 
He knew 
Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. 

Line 10. 
* As sweet and musical 
As bright Apollo's lute. 

Love's Labor 's Lost, Act iv. Sc. 3. 



156 MILTON. 

Without the meed of some melodious tear. 

Line 14. 
Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise 
(That last infirmity of noble mind) 
To scorn delights and live laborious days ; 
But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, 
And think to burst out into sudden blaze, 
Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, 
And slits the thin-spun life. Line 70. 

Built in the eclipse and rigged with curses dark. 

Line 101. 
The pilot of the Galilean lake. Line 109. 

So sinks the day-star in the ocean-bed, 

And yet anon repairs his drooping head, 

And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore 

Flames in the forehead of the morning sky. 

Line 168. 
To-morrow to fresh woods and pastures new. 

Line 193. 



IL PENSEROSO. 

The gay motes that people the sunbeams. 

Line 8. 
And looks commercing with the skies, 
Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes. Line 39 

And add to these retired Leisure, ' 

That in trim gardens takes his pleasure. Line 49. 



MILTON. 157 

Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, 
Most musical, most melancholy ! Line 61. 

Save the cricket on the hearth. Line 82 

Presenting Thebes, or Pelops' line, 

Or the tale of Troy divine. Line 99. 

Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing 

Such notes, as, warbled to the string, 

Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek. Line 105. 

Or call up him that left half told 

The story of Cambuscan bold. Line 109 

Where more is meant than meets the ear. 

Line 120. 
And storied windows richly dight, 
Casting a dim, religious light. Line 159. 



L ALLEGKO. 

Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee 

Jest, and youthful Jollity, 

Quips, and cranks, and wanton wiles. 

Nods, and becks, and wreathed smiles. Line 25 

Sport, that wrinkled Care derides, 

And Laughter, holding both his sides. 

Come, and trip it as you go, 

On the light fantastic toe. Line 3L 



158 MILTON. 

And every shepherd tells his tale, 

Under the hawthorn in the dale. Line 67. 

Meadows trim with daisies pied. Line 75. 

Where perhaps some beauty lies, 

The Cynosure of neighboring eyes. Line 79. 

Herbs, and other country messes, 

Which the neat-handed Phyllis dresses. Line 85. 

Towered cities please us then, 

And the busy hum of men. Line 117. 

Ladies, whoso bright eyes 
Rain influence. Line 121. 

Then to the well-trod stage anon, 

If Jonson's learned sock be on, 

Or sweetest Shakspeare, Fancy's child, 

Warble his native wood-notes wild. Line 131. 

And ever, against eating cares 

Lap me in soft Lydian airs, 

Married to immortal verse, 

Such as the meeting soul may pierce 

In notes, with many a winding bout 

Of linked sweetness long drawn out. Line 135. 

The hidden soul of harmony. Line 144 



MILTON. 159 

SONNETS. 

As ever in my great task-master's eye. Sonnet vii. 

That old man eloquent. Sonnet x 

That would have made Quintilian stare and gasp. 

Sonnet xi. 

License they mean when they cry liberty. 

Sonnet xii. 
Peace hath her victories 
No less renowned than war. Sonnet xvi. 

They also serve who only stand and wait. 

Sonnet xix. 
Yet I argue not 
Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot 
Of heart or hope ; but still bear up and steer 
Eight onward. Sonnet xxii. 

Of which all Europe rings from side to side. 

Sonnet xxii. 
But 0, as to embrace me she inclined, 
I waked ; she fled ; and day brought back my 
night. Sonnet xxiii 

Under a star-y pointing pyramid. 

Dear son of memory, great heir of fame. 

Epitaph on Shakspeare. 



160 BASSE. — VA tTGHAN. — D ESTRANGE. 



WILLIAM BASSE. 1613-1648. 
Renowned Spenser, lie a thought more nigh 
To learned Chaucer, and rare Beaumont lie 
A little nearer Spenser, to make room 
For Shakspeare in your threefold, fourfold tomb. 

On Shakspeare, 

HENRY VATTGHAN. 1614-1695. 
I see them walking in an air of glory 

Whose light doth trample on my days ; 
My days which are at best but didl and hoary, 

Mere glimmering and decays. They are all gone. 

Dear beauteous death ; the jewel of the just. 

Ibid. 
And yet, as angels in some brighter dreams 
Call to the soul when man doth sleep, 
So some strange thoughts transcend our wonted 

themes. 
And into glory peep. Ibid. 



ROGER L'ESTRANGE. 1616-1704. 

Though this may be play to you, 
'T is death to us.* 

Fables from several Authors. Fable 39b. 

* One man's anguish is another's sport. 

Young. Satire vii. 



BUTLER. 161 



SAMUEL BUTLER. 1612-1680. 
HUDIBRAS. 

We grant, altho' lie had much wit. 
Tie was very shy of using it. 

Part i. Canto i. Line 45. 
Besides, 't is known he could speak Greek 
As naturally as pigs squeak. 
That Latin was no more difficile, 
Than to a blackbird 't is to whistle. 

Part i. Canto i. Line 61. 
He could distinguish, and divide 
A hair, 'twixt south and southwest side. 

Part i. Canto i. Line 67. 
For rhetoric, he could not ope 
His mouth, but out there flew a trope. 

Part i. Canto i. Line 81. 
Whatever sceptic could inquire for, 
For every why he had a wherefore. 

Part i. Canto i. Line 131. 
He knew what 's what, and that 's as high 
As metaphysic wit can fly. Part i. Canto i. Line 149. 

Such as take lodgings in a head 
That 's to be let unfurnished.* 

Part i. Canto i. Line 161. 

* Often the cockloft is empty, in those which nature hath 
built many stories high. — Fuller. Holy and Profane States. 
B. v. ch. xviii. 

11 



162 BUTLER. 

And prove their doctrine orthodox, 
By Apostolic blows and knocks. 

Part i. Canto i. Line 199. 
Compound for sins they are inclined to, 
By damning those they have no mind to. 

Part i. Canto i. Line 215. 
For rhyme the rudder is of verses, 
With which, like ships, they steer their courses. 

Part i. Canto i. Line 463. 
And force them, though it was in spite 
Of Nature, and their stars, to write. 

Part i. Canto i. Line 647. 
Quoth Hudibras, " I smell a rat ; * 
Ralpho, thou dost prevaricate." 

Part i. Canto i. Line 821. 
Or shear swine, all cry and no wool. 

Part i. Canto i. Line 852. 
With many a stiff thwack, many a bang, 
Hard crab-tree and old iron rang. 

Part i. Canto ii. Line 831. 
Ay me ! what perils do environ 
The man that meddles with cold iron. 

Part i. Canto iii. Line 1. 
Nor do I know what is become 
Of him, more than the Pope of Rome. 

Part i. Canto iii. Line 263 
He had got a hurt 
Of the inside of a deadlier sort. 

Part i. Canto iii. Line 309 

* See Proverbs, p. 409. 



BUTLER. 163 

I am not now in fortune's power ; 
He that is down can fall no lower.* 

Part i. Canto iii. Line 877. 
Thou hast 
Outrun the Constable at last. 

Part i. Canto iii. Line 1367. 
Some force whole regions, in despite 
0' geography, to change their site ; 
Make former times shake hands with latter, 
And that which was before come after. 
But those that write in rhyme still make 
The one verse for the other's sake ; 
For one for sense, and one for rhyme, 
I think 's sufficient at one time. 

Part ii. Canto i. Line 23. 
Quoth she, I 've heard old cunning stagers 
Say, fools for arguments use wagers. 

Part ii. Canto i. Line 297. 
For what is worth in anything, 
But so much money as 't will bring. 

Part ii. Canto i. Line 465. 
Love is a boy by poets styled ; 
Then spare the rod and spoil the child.f 

Part ii. Canto i. Line 843 . 
The sun had long since in the lap 
Of Thetis taken out his nap, 

* He that is down need fear no fall. 

Bunyan. Pilgrim's Progress. 
t He that spareth his rod hateth his son. 

Proverbs, ch. xiii. 24 



164 BUTLER. 

And, like a lobster boiled, the mom 
From black to red began to turn. 

Part ii. Canto ii. Line 29. 
Have always been at daggers-drawing, 
And one another clapper-clawing. 

Part ii. Canto ii. Line 79 
He that imposes an oath makes it, 
Not he that for convenience takes it. 

Part ii. Canlo ii. Line 377. 

As the Ancients 
Say wisely, Have a care o' th' main chance,* 
And look before you ere you leap ; 
For as you sow, y' are like to reap.f 

Part ii. Canto ii. Line 501. 
Doubtless the pleasure is as great 
Of being cheated, as to cheat. 

Part ii. Canto iii. Line 1. 
He made an instrument to know 
If the moon shine at full or no. 

Part ii. Canto iii. Line 261. 

To swallow gudgeons ere they 're catched, 
And count their chickens ere they 're hatched. 

Part ii. Canto iii. Line 923. 
As quick as lightning, in the breach 
Just in the place where honor 's lodged, 
As wise philosophers have judged, 

« Be careful still of the main chance. — Dktden. Persius. 
Satire vi. 

t Cf. Tusser, ante, p. 26. Whatsoever a man soweth that 
ghail he also reap. — Galatians, ch. vi. 7. 



BUTLER. 165 

Because a kick in that place more 
Hurts honor than deep wounds before, 

Part ii. Canto iii. Line 1067. 
As men of inward light are wont 
To turn their optics in upon 't. 

Pa* t iii. Canto i. Line 481. 
Still amorous and fond, and billing, 
Like Philip and Mary on a shilling. 

Part iii. Canto i. Line 687. 
What makes all doctrines plain and clear ? 
About two hundred pounds a year. 
And that which was proved true before, 
Prove false again ? Two hundred more. 

Part iii. Canto i. Line 1277, 
Cause Grace and Virtue are within 
Prohibited degrees of kin ; 
And therefore no true saint allows 
They shall be suffered to espouse. 

Part iii. Canto i. Line 1293. 
Nick Machiavel had ne'er a trick, 
Though he gave his name to our old Nick. 

Part iii. Canto i. Line 1313 
True as the dial to the sun, 
Although it be not shined upon. 

Part iii. Canto ii. Line 175. 
For those that fly may fight again, 
Which he can never do that 's slain.* 

Part iii. Canto iii. IJne 243. 
He that complies against his will 
Is of his own opinion still. 

Part iii. Canto iii. Line 547. 
* See page 402. 



166 DBTDEN. 

JOHN DRYDEN. 1631-1700. 

Alexander's feast. 

None but the brave deserves the fair. Line 15 

Sweet is pleasure after pain. Line 60, 

Soothed with the sound, the king grew vain ; 
Fought all his battles o'er again ; 
And thrice he routed all his foes ; and thrice he 
slew the slain. Line 66. 

Fallen from his high estate, 

And weltering in his blood ; 

Deserted, at his utmost need, 

By those his former bounty fed ; 

On the bare earth exposed he lies, 

With not a friend to close his eyes. Line 78. 

For pity melts the mind to love. Line 96. 

"War, he sung, is toil and trouble ; 

Honor, but an empty bubble ; 

Never ending, still beginning, 

Fighting still, and still destroying. Line 99, 

Lovely Thais sits beside thee, 

Take the good the gods provide thee. Line 106, 



DRYDEN. 167 

Sighed and looked, and sighed again. Line 120. 

And, like another Helen, fired another Troy. 

Line 154. 
Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire. 

Line 160. 

He raised a mortal to the skies, 

She drew an ansrel down. Line 169. 



ABSALOM AND ACH1TOPHEL. 

"Wliate'er he did, was done with so much ease, 
In him alone 't was natural to please. 

Part i. Line 27. 
A fiery soul, which, working out its way, 
Fretted the pigmy body to decay, 
And o'er informed the tenement of clay. 

Part i. Line 156. 
Great wits are sure to madness near allied, 
And thin partitions do their bounds divide.* 

Part i. Line 163. 
And all to leave what with his toil he won, 
To that unfeather'd two-legg'd thing, a son. 

Part i. Line 169- 
Resolved to ruin or to rule the state. 

Part i. Line 174. 

* What thin partitions sense from thought divide. 

Pope. Essay on Man. Epistle i. Line 262 



1 68 BR YDEN. 

But wild ambition loves to slide, not stand, 
And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land.* 

Part i. Line 198 
The people's prayer — the glad diviner's theme, 
The young men's vision, and the old men's dream.f 

Part i. Line 238. 
Than a successive title, long and dark, 
Drawn from the mouldy rolls of Noah's ark. 

Part i. Line 301. 
Not only hating David, hut the king. 

Part i. Line 512. 
Who think too little, and who talk too much. 

Part i. Line 534. 
A man so various, that he seemed to be 
Not one, but all mankind's epitome ; 
Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, 
Was everything by starts, and nothing long. 
But in the course of one revolving moon, 
Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon. 

Part i. Line 545. 
So over violent, or over civil, 
That every man Avith him was God or devil. 

Part i. Line 557. 
His tribe were God Almighty's gentlemen. 

Part i. Line 645. 



* Greatnesse on goodnesse loves to slide, not stand, 
And leaves for Fortune's ice, Vertue's ferme land. 
From Knolles's History, (under a portrait of Mustapha I.) 
t Your old men shall dream dreams, your j-oung men shall 
see visions. — Joel ii. 28. 



DRY DEN. 169 

Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense 
Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence. 

Part i. Line 868 

Beware the fury of a patient man * 

Part i. Line 1005. 

For every inch, that is not fool, is rogue. 

Part ii. Line 463. 



CTMON AND IPHIGENIA. 



And whistled as he went, for want of thought. 

Line 84. 

The fool of nature stood with stupid eyes, 
And gaping mouth, that testified surprise. 

Line 107. 

She hugged the offender, and forgave the offence. 
Sex to the last. Line 367. 

And raw in fields the rude militia swarms ; 
Mouths without hands : maintained at vast ex- 
pense, 
In peace a charge, in war a weak defence ; 
Stout once a month they march, a blustering band, 
And ever, but in times of need, at hand. 

Line 400 
Of seeming arms to make a short essay, 
Then hasten to be drunk, the business of the day. 

Line 407. 
* Furor fit loesa seepuis patientia. 

Ptjblius Syrus. 



170 DRYDEN. 

Like a painted Jove, 
Kept idle thunder in his lifted hand. 

Annus Mirabilis. Stanza 39. 
Errors like straws upon the surface flow ; 
He who would search for pearls must dive below. 
All for Love. Prologue, 
Men are but children of a larger growth. 

Ibid. Act iv. Sc. 1. 

Your ignorance is the mother of your devotion 

to me. The Maiden Queen. Act i. Sc. 2. 

But Shakspeare's magic could not copied be ; 
Within that circle none durst walk but he. 

The Tempest. Prologue, 

I am as free as nature first made man, 
Ere the base laws of servitude began, 
When wild in woods the noble savage ran. 

The Conquest of Granada. Part i. Act i. Sc. 1. 
Forgiveness to the injured does belong ; 
But they ne'er pardon who have done the wrong.* 
Ibid. Part ii. Act i. Sc. 2. 
When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat. 
Yet fooled with hope, men favor the deceit ; 
Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay : 
To-morrow's falser than the former day ; 
Lies worse ; and while it says, " We shall be blest 
With some new joys," cuts off what we possessed. 

* Quos laeserunt et oderunt. — Seneca, Be Ira, Lib. ii. 
cap. xxxiii. 

Proprium humani ingenii est odisse quem laeseris. — 
Tacitus, Agricola, 42, 4. 



DRTDEN. 171 

Strange cozenage ! none would live past years 

again, 
Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain ; 
And from the dregs of life think to receive 
What the first sprightly running could not give. 

Awengzebe. Act iv. Sc. 1 , 
His hair just grizzled 
As in a green old age. (Edipus. Act iii. Sc. 1. 

Of no distemper, of no blast he died, 

But fell like autumn fruit that mellowed long ; 

Even wondered at, because he dropt no sooner. 

Fate seemed to wind him up for fourscore years ; 

Yet freshly ran he on ten winters more : 

Till like a clock worn out with eating time, 

The wheels of weary life at last stood still. 

Ibid. Act iv. Sc. 1. 
She, though in full blown flower of glorious 

beauty, 
Grows cold, even in the summer of her age. 

Ibid. Act iv. Sc. 1. 
There is a pleasure sure 
In being mad which none but madmen know. 

The Spanish Friar. Act ii. Sc. 1. 
This is the porcelain clay of human kind.* 

Don Sebastian. Act i. Sc. I 
Look round the habitable world, hoAV few 
Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue. 

Translation of Juvenal's 1(M Satire. 
* The precious porcelain of human clay. 

Bykon. Bon Juan. Canto iv. St. 11. 



172 . DRYDEN. 

Thespis, the first professor of our art, 

At country wakes sung ballads from a cart. 

Prologue to Lee's Sophonisba 
Happy the man, and happy he alone, 
He, who can call to-day his own : 
He who, secure within, can say, 
To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived to-day. 
Imitation of Horace. Book i. Ode 29. Line 65. 
But Shadwell never deviates into sense. 

Mac Flecknoe. Line 20. 
The spectacles of hooks. 

Essay on Dramatic Poetry. 
Love endures no tie, 
And Jove but laughs at lovers' perjury.* 

Pal anion and Arcile. Book ii. 

For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss. 

The Cock and Fox. Line 452, 
And that one hunting, which the devil design'd 
For one fair female, lost him half the kind. 

Theodore and Honoria. 
Three Poets, in three distant ages born, 
Greece, Italy, and England did adorn ; 
The first in loftiness of thought surpassed, 
The next in majesty, in both the last. 
The force of nature could no further go ; 
To make a third she joined the former two. 

On Milton, 
* Perjuria ridet amantium 
Jupiter. Tibullus. Lib. iii. El. 6. Line 49. 

A Latin proverb translated by Shakspeare, Dryden, and 
others. 



BAXTER. — B UN TAN. — KING. 173 



RICHARD BAXTER. 1615-1691. 
I preached as never sure to preach again, 
And as a dying man to dying men. 

Love breathing Thanks and Praise, 



JOHN BUNYAN. 1628-1688. 
And so I penned 
It down, until at last it came to be, 
For length and breadth, the bigness which you 
see. Apology for his Book 

Some said, " John, print it," others said, " Not so,' 
Some said, " It might do good," others said, " No.' 

Ibid, 
The Slough of Despond. Pilgrim's Progress, 



"WILLIAM KING. 1663-1712. 

And sat upon a rock, and bobbed for whale. 

Upon a Giant's Angling 
Faint heart ne'er won fair lady.* 

Orpheus and Eurydice. Line 184 

* And let us mind, faint heart ne'er won 
A lady fair. 
Burks to Dr. Blaeklock- 



174 ROCHESTER.— ROSCOMMON.— OTWAT. 



EARL OF ROCHESTER. 1647-1680. 

Here lies our sovereign lord the king, 
Whose word no man relies on ; 

He never says a foolish thing, 
Nor ever does a wise one. 

Written on the Bedchamber Door of Charles II, 
And ever since the conquest have been fools. 

Artemisia in the Town to Chloe in the Country. 



EARL OF ROSCOMMON. 1634-1685. 
Immodest words admit of no defence, 
For want of decency is want of sense. 

Essay on Translated Verse. 



THOMAS OTWAY. 1651-1685. 
woman ! lovely woman ! Nature made thee 
To temper man ; we had been brutes without you. 
Angels are painted fair, to look like you : 
There 's in you all that we believe of heaven ; 
Amazing brightness, purity, and truth, 
Eternal joy, and everlasting love. 

Venice Preserved. Act i. Sc 1 



SHEFFIELD. — LEE. 175 

SHEFFIELD, DUKE OF BUCKINGHAMSHIRE 
1649-1721. 

Of all those arts in which the wise excel, 
Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well. 

Essay on Poetry. 
There 's no such thing in nature, and you '11 draw 
A faultless monster which the world ne'er ?aw. 

Ibid. 
Read Homer once, and you can read no more, 
For all books else appear so mean, so poor ; 
Verse will seem prose ; but still persist to read, 
And Homer will be all the books you need. 

Ibid. 



NATHANIEL LEE. 1650-1692. 

Then he will talk — good gods, how he will talk ! 

Alexander the Great. Act i. Sc. 3. 
See the conquering hero comes, 
Sound the trumpet, beat the drums. 

Ibid. Act ii. Sc. 1. 

'T is beauty calls and glory leads the way. 

Ibid. Activ.Sc. 2. 

When Greeks joined Greeks, then was the tug of 
war. Ibid. Act iv. Sc. 2. 



176 WALTER POPE.— NORMS. — BROWN. 

DR. WALTER POPE. 1714. 

May I govern my passion with absolute sway, 
And grow wiser and better, as my strength wears 

away. The Old Man's Wish. 



JOHN NORRIS. 1657-1711. 

How fading are the joys we dote upon ! 

Like apparitions seen and gone ; 

But those which soonest take their flight 
Are the most exquisite and strong ; 

Like angel's visits, short and bright, 
Mortality 'a too weak to bear them long. 

The Parting. 



TOM BROWN. 1704. 

I do not love thee, Doctor Fell, 
The reason why I cannot tell ; 
But this alone I know full well, 
I do not love thee, Doctor Fell.* 

* Non amo te, Sabidi, nee possum dicere quare; 
Hoc tantum possum dicere, non amo te. 

Martial, Ep. 1. xxxiii. 
Je ne vous aime pas, Hylas ; 
Je n'en saurois dire la cause, 
Je sais seulement un chose; 
C'est que je ne vous aime pas. 
Roger de Bussy, Comle de Rabutin, Epistle 33, Book 1. 



DEFOE. — GIFFORD.— PRIOR. 177 

DANIEL DEFOE. 1661-1731. 

"Wherever God erects a house of prayer, 
The Devil always bnikls a chapel there ; * 
And 't will be found upon examination, 
The latter has the largest congregation. 

The True-Born Englishman. Part i. Line 1. 



RICHARD GIEFORD. 1725-1807. 

Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound ; 

All at her work the village maiden sings, 
Nor, while she turns the giddy wheel around, 

Revolves the sad vicissitudes of things. 

Contemplation 

♦ 

MATTHEW PRIOR. 1664-1721. 
Be to her virtues very kind ; 
Be to her faults a little blind. An English Padlock. 

Be to her merits kind, 

And to her faults whate'er they are be blind. 

Prologue to the Royal Mischief. 
Abra was ready ere I called her name ; 
And though I called another, Abra came. 

Solomon on the Vanity of the World. Part ii. 
Now fitted the halter, now traversed the cart, 
Ant) often took leave ; but was loth to depart. 

The Thief and the Cordelier. 

* See Proverbs, page 410. 



178 PRIOR. 

Of two evils I have chose the least.* 

Imitation of Horace 
Here lies what once was Matthew Prior ; f 
The son of Adam and of Eve : 
Can Bourbon or Nassau claim higher ? 

Epitaph on Himself. 
Odds life ! must one swear to the truth of a song ? 

A Better Answer. 
That, if weak women went astray, 
Their stars were more in fault than they. 

Hans Carvel. 
The end must justify the means. Ibid. 

And virtue is her own reward. 

Ode in Imitation of Horace. B. iii. Od. 2. 
That air and harmony of shape express, 
Fine by degrees, and beautifully less. % 

Henry and Emma. 

Our hopes, like tow'ring falcons, aim 

At objects in an airy height ; 
The little pleasure of the game 

Is from afar to view the flight. 

To the Hon. Charles Montafpce. 

*? Of two evils the less is always to be chosen. — Thomas 
A Kempis. Imitation of Christ. Book iii. Cli. 12. 

f The following epitaph was written long before the time 
of Prior: — 

Johnnie Carnegie lais heer. 

Descendit of Adam and Eve, v 

Gif on}' con gang hieher, 
Ise willing give him lere. 
J Fine by defect and delicately weak. — Pope, p. 194. 



179 



JOSEPH ADDISON. 1672-1719. 
CATO. 

The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers, 
And heavily in clouds brings on the day, 
The great, the important day, big with the fate 
Of Cato, and of Rome. Act i. Sc. 1. 

Thy steady temper, Portius, 

Can look on guilt, rebellion, fraud, and Cresar, 

In the calm lights of mild philosophy. Act i. Sc. 1. 

'T is not in mortals to command success, 
But we '11 do more, Sempronius : we '11 deserve it. 

Act i. Sc. 2 
Blesses his stars and thinks it luxury. Act i. Sc. 4. 

'T is pride, rank pride, and haughtiness of soul ; 
I think the Romans call it stoicism. Act i. Sc. 4. 

'"Were you with these, my prince, you 'd soon 

forget 
The pale, unripened beauties of the North. 

Act i. Sc. 4. 
The virtuous Marcia towers above her sex. 

Act i. Sc. 4. 
My voice is still for war. 
Gods ! can a Roman senate long debate 
Which of the two to choose, slavery or death ? 

Act ii. Sc. 1 



180 



A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty 
Is worth a whole eternity in bondage. 

Act ii. Sc. 1 
The woman that deliberates is lost. Act iv.Sc. 1, 

When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, 
The post of honor is a private station. 

Act iv. Sc. 2. 
It must be so. — Plato, thou reasonest well. 
Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, 
This longing after immortality ? Act v. Sc. 1. 

'T is the divinity that stirs within us ; 

'T is Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, 

And intimates eternity to man. Act v. Sc. 1. 

I 'm weary of conjectures. Act v. Sc. 1. 

My death and life, 
My bane and antidote, are both before me. 

Act v. Sc. 1. 
The soul secured in her existence, smiles 
At the drawn dagger, and defies its point. 

Act v. Sc. 1. 
The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds. 

Act v. Sc. 1 

And, pleased the Almighty's orders to perform, 
Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.* 

The Campaign. Line 291. 
* Frequently ascribed to Pope. Dunciad. Book iii. Line 264. 



ADDISON. — SOUTHERNE. 181 

For wheresoe'er I turn my ravished eyes, 
Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise, 
Poetic fields encompass me around. 
And still I seem to tread on classic ground.* 

A Letter from Italy. 
The spacious firmament on high, 
"With all the blue ethereal sky, 
And spangled heavens, a shining frame, 
Their great Original proclaim. Ode. 

Soon as the evening shades prevail, 

The moon takes up the wondrous tale, 

And nightly to the listening earth 

Repeats the story of her birth ; 

"While all the stars that round her burn, 

And all the planets in their turn 

Confirm the tidings as they roll, 

And spread the truth from pole to pole. Ibid. 

For ever singing, as they shine, 

The hand that made us is divine. Ibid. 



THOMAS SOUTHERNE. 1659-1746. 

Pity 's akin to love.f Oroonoka. Act ii. Sc. 1. 

* Malone states that this was the first time the phrase 
classic ground, since so common, was ever used, 
t Wo. I pity you. 

Oli. That 's a degree to love. 

Shakspeaee. Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. L 



182 THEOBALD.— CIBBER. 



LOUIS THEOBALD. 1691-1744. 

None but himself can be his parallel.* 

The Double Falsehood. 



COLLEY CIBBER. 1671-1757. 
The aspiring youth that fired the Ephesian dome, 
Outlives in fame the pious fool that raised it. 

Richard III. Altered. Act iii. Sc. 1. 
I 've lately had two spiders 
Crawling upon my startled hopes. 
Now tho' thy friendly hand has brushed 'em from 

me, 
Yet still they crawl offensive to my eyes ; 
I would have some kind friend to tread upon 'em. 

Act iv. Sc. 3. 
Off with his head ! so much for Buckingham ! 

Act iv. Sc. 3. 
With clink of hammers closing rivets up.f 

Act v. Sc. 3 
Richard 's himself again ! 
Hark ! the shrill trumpet sounds, to horse, away, 
My soul 's in arms, and eager for the fray. 

Richard III. Act v. Sc. 3. 

* Quseris Alcidai parem: 
Nemo est nisi ipse. 

Skneca. TTercules Fit rem. Act i. Sc 1. 

f Cf. Shakspeare, Henry V. Act iv. Chorus. 



TAELTON.—SE WELL. - BICKERSTAFF. 183 

RICHARD TARLTON. 
The King of France, with forty thousand men 
Went up a hill, and so came down again. 

From the Pigges Corantoe, 1642. 



RICHARD SAVAGE. 1698-1743. 
He lives to build, not boast a generous race ; 
No tenth transmitter of a foolish face. 

The Bastard. Line 7 



DR. GEORGE SEWELL. 1726. 

When all the blandishments of life are gone, 
The coward sneaks to death, the brave live on. 

The Suicide. 



ISAAC BICKERSTAFF. Circa 1735 . 

Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, 
But — why did you kick me down stairs ? 

'Tis Well its No Worse. 
I care for nobody, no, not I, 
If no one cares for me.* 

Love in a Village. Act i. Sc. 3. 

* If naebody care for me, 
I'll care for naebody. 

Burns. / hae a Wife o' my Ain. 



184 



JONATHAN SWIFT. 1667-1745. 

I Ve often wished that I had clear, 
For life, six hundred pounds a year, 
A handsome house to lodge a friend, 
A river at my garden's end. 

Imitation of Horace. B. ii. Sat. 6 
So geographers, in Afric maps,* 
"With savage pictures fill their gaps, 
And o'er unhahitahle downs 
Place elephants for want of towns. 
So, naturalists observe, a flea 
Has smaller fleas that on him prey ; 
And these have smaller still to bite 'em. 
And SO proceed ad infinitum. Poetry, a Rhapsody. 

And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever 
could make two ears of corn, or two blades of 
grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only 
one grew before, would deserve better of man- 
kind, and do more essential service to his country, 
than the whole race of politicians put together. 

Gulliver's Travels. 

* As geographers crowd into the edges of their maps, parts 

of the world which they do not know about, adding notes in 

the margin to the effect, that beyond this lies nothing but 

sandy deserts full of wild beasts and unapproachable bogs. 

Plutarch. Thestu$ 



CONGREVE — ROWE. 185 

WILLIAM CONGKEVE. 1669-1729. 
Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast, 
To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. 

The Mourning Bride. Act i, Sc. 1. 
By magic numbers and persuasive sound. Ibid. 

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, 
Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned. 

Ibid. Act iii. Sc. 8. 
For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, 
And though a late, a sure reward succeeds. 

Ibid. Act v. -Sc. 12, 

If there 's delight in love, 't is when I see 

That heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me. 

The Way of the World. Act iii. Sc. 12 

Ferdinand Mendez Pinto was but a type of 

thee, thou bar of the first magnitude. 

Love for Love. Act ii. Sc. 5. 



NICHOLAS ROWE. 1673-1718. 
Is she not more than painting can express, 
Or youthful poets fancy when they love ? 

The Fair Penitent. Act ii. Sc. 1. 
Is this that haughty gallant, gay Lothario ? 

Ibid. Act v. Sc. 1. 



186 pope. 

ALEXANDER POPE. 1688-1744. 
ESSAY ON MAN. 

Awake, my St. John ! leave all meaner things 
To low ambition, and the pride of kings. 
Let us (since life can little more supply 
Than just to look about us, and to die,) 
Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man ; 
A mighty maze ! but not without a plan. 

Epistle i. Line 1, 
Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, 
And catch the manners living as they rise ; 
Laugh where we must, be candid where we can, 
But vindicate the ways of God to man.* 

Epistle i. Line 13. 
Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate. 

Epistle i. Line 77. 
Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, 
And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood. 

Epistle i. Line 83. 
Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, 
A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, 
Atoms or systems into ruin hurled, 
And now a bubble burst, and now a world. 

Epistle i. Line 87. 
Hope springs eternal in the human breast : 
Man never is, but always to be blest. 

* And justify the ways of God to men. 

Paradise Lust, B. i. L. 2G 



pope. 187 

The soul, uneasy, and confin'd from home, 
Rests and expatiates in a life to come. 
Lo, the poor Indian ! whose untutored mind 
Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind. 

Epistle i. Line 95. 
Far as the solar walk or milky way. 

Epistle i. Line 102. 
But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, 
Has faithful dog shall bear him company. 

Epistle i. Line 111. 
In pride, in reasoning pride, our error lies ; 
All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies. 
Pride still is aiming at the blessed abodes, 
Men would be angels, angels would be gods. 

Epistle i. Line 123. 
Die of a rose in aromatic pain. Epistle i. Line 200 

The spider's touch how exquisitely fine ! 
Feels at each thread, and lives along the line.* 

Epistle i. Line 217 

* Much like a subtle spider which doth sit, 
In middle of her web, which spreadeth wide; 
If ought do touch the utmost thread of it 
She feels it instantly on every side. 
Sir John Davies, (1570-1626.) Immortality of the Soul 
Our souls sit close and silently within, 
And their own web from their own entrails spin ; 
And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such, 
That spider like, we feel the tenderest touch. 

Dkydejt. Marriage a la Mode. Act ii. Sc. L 



188 



What thin partitions sense from thought divide.* 

Epistle i. Line 226. 
All are but parts of one stupendous whole, 
Whose body Nature is, and God the soul. 

Epistle i. Line 267. 
As full, as perfect, in vile man that mourns, 
As the rapt seraph that adores and burns. 

Epistle i. Line 211. 
All nature is but art, unknown to thee ; 
All chance, direction, wdiich thou canst not see ; 
All discord, harmony not. under stood ; 
All partial evil, universal good ; 
And spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, 
One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right. 

Epistle i. Line 289. 
Know then thyself, presume not God to scan ; 
The proper study of mankind is man.f 

Epistle ii. Line 1, 
Chaos of thought and passion, all confused ; 
Still by himself abused or disabused ; 
Created half to rise, and half to fall ; 
Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all ; 

* Great wits are sure to madness near allied, 
And thin partitions do their bounds divide. 

Deyden, ante, p. 139. 
" Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementia? fuit." 
Senega, Be Tranquillitaie Animi, xvii. 10, quotes this from 
Aristotle, who gives as one of his Problemata (xsx. 1), A;u 
t'l navrec boot TreptTTol ysyovaaiv uvdpeg ij Kara <j>L?j)GO<piav :/ 
noliTUifjv ?) -noirioiv fj rixva-S (paivovrai pe7uayxo?dKol ovteq. 

f From Charron (de la Sagesse): — " La vraye science et 
Le vray etude de l'homme c'est l'homme." 



pope. 189 

Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled ; 
The glory, jest, and riddle of the world.* 

Epistle ii. Line 13. 
Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot, 
To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot. 

Epistle ii. Line 63.. 
On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, 
Reason the card, but passion is the gale. 

Episde ii. Line 107. 
And hence one master-passion in the breast, 
Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the.rest. 

Epistle ii. Line 131. 
The young disease, that must subdue at length, 
Grows Avith his growth, and strengthens Avith his 
strength. Epistle ii. Line 135. 

Vice is a monster of so frightful mien,f 
As, to be hated, needs but to be seen ; 
Yet seen too oft, familiar Avith her face, 
We first endure, then pity, then embrace. 

Epistle ii. Line 217. 
Virtuous and vicious every mah must be, 
Few in th' extreme, but all in the degree. 

Epistle ii. Line 231. 
* Quelle chimere est-ce done que l'homme! quelle nou- 
veaute, quel chaos, quel sujet de contradiction! Juge de 
toutes choses, imbecile ver de terre, ddpositaire du vrai, amas 
tl'incertitude, gloire et rebut de l'univers. — Pascal. Sys- 
iewzes des Philosojihes, xxv. 
t For truth has such a face and such a mien, 
As to be loved needs only to be seen. 

Dryden. The Hind and Panther. 



190 POPE. 

Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, 
Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw : 
Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, 
A little louder, but as empty quite ; 
Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage, 
And beads and prayer-books are the toys of age 
Pleas'd with this bauble still, as that before, 
Till tired he sleeps, and life 's poor play is o'er. 

Epistle ii. Line 275 
Learn of the little nautilus to sail, 
Speed the thin oar, and catch the driving gale. 

Epistle iii. Line 177. 
The enormous faith of many made for one. 

Epistle iii. Line 242. 
For forms of government let fools contest ; 
Whate'er is best administered is best : 
For modes of faith, let graceless zealots fight ; 
His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.* 

Epistle iii. Line 303. 
O happiness ! our being's end and aim ! 
Good, pleasure, ease, content ! whate'er thy name : 
That something still which prompts th' eternal 

sigh, 
For which we bear to live, or dare to die. 

Epistle iv. Line 1, 
Order is Heaven's first law. Epistle iv. Line 49. 

* His faith perhaps, in some nice tenets, might 
Be wrong; his life, I 'm sure, was in the right. 

Cowley. On the Death of Crashaw 



POPE. 191 

Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, 
Lie in three words — health, peace, and compe- 
tence. Epistle iv. Line 79. 

The soul's calm sunshine and the heartfelt joy. 

Epistle iv. Line ll>8 
Honor and shame from no condition rise ; 
Act well your part, there all the honor lies. 

Epistle iv. Line 193. 
Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow ; 
The rest is all but leather or prunello. 

Epistle iv. Line 203. 
What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards ? 
Alas ! not all the blood of all the Howards. 

Epistle iv. Line 215. 
A wit 's a feather, and a chief a rod ; 
An honest man 's the noblest work of God.* 

Epistle iv. Line 247. 
Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart : 
One self-approving hour whole years outweighs 
Of stupid starers and of loud huzzas : 
And more true joy Marcellus exiled feels 
Than Caesar with a senate at his heels. 

Epistle iv. Line 254. 
If parts allure thee, think how Bacon shined, 
The wisest, brightest, meanest of mankind ! 

* Man is his own star, and thaf soul that can 
Be honest, is the only perfect man. 

Fletcheh. Upon an Honest Man's Fortune 



192 pope. 

Or, ravished with the whistling of a name, 
See Cromwell, damned to everlasting fame ! * 

Epistle iv. Line 281 
Know then this truth (enough for man to know), 
" Virtue alone is happiness below." 

Epistle iv. Line 309. 
Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, 
But looks through nature up to nature's God.f 

Epistle iv. Line 331. 
Formed by thy converse, happily to steer 
From grave to gay, from lively to severe.^ 

Epistle iv. Line 379. 
Say, shall my little bark attendant sail, 
Pursue the triumph, and partake the gale ? 

Epistle iv. Line 385. 
Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend. 

Epistle iv. Line 390. 
That virtue only makes our bliss below, 
And all our knowledge is, ourselves to know. 

Epistle iv. Line 397. 
* May see thee now, though late, redeem thy name, 
And glorify what else is damned to fame. 

Savage. Character of Foster. 
Damned by the Muse to everlasting fame. 

Lloyd. Epistle to a Friend. 

f You will find that' it is the modest, not the presumptuous 

inquirer, who makes a real and safe progress in the discovery 

of divine truths. One follows Nature and Nature's God — 

that is, he follows God in his works and in his word. 

Bolingbrokk. A Letter to Mr. Pope. 
J Heureux qui, dans ses vers, sait d'une voix legere 
Passer du grave au doux, du plaisant au severe. 

Boileau. VArt Poitique. Chant I er . 



pope. 193 



MORAL ESSAYS. 

To observations which ourselves we make, 
We grow more partial for the observer's sake. 

Epistle i. Line 11. 
Like following life through creatures you dissect 
You lose it in the moment you detect. 

Epistle i. Line 29. 
Half our knowledge we must snatch, not take. 

Epistle i. Line 40. 
'T is from high life high characters are drawn ; 
A saint hi crape is twice a saint in lawn. 

Epistle i. Line 135. 
'T is education forms the common mind : 
Just as the twig is bent the tree 's inclined. 

Epistle i. Line 149. 
Manners with fortunes, humors turn with climes, 
Tenets with books, and principles with times.* 

Epistle i. Line 173. 
Odious ! in woollen ! 't would a saint provoke, 
Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke. 

Epistle i. Line 246. 
And you, hrave Cobham ! to the latest breath 
Shall feel your ruling passion strong in death. 

Epistle i. Line 262. 
Whether the charmer simier it, or saint it, 
If folly grow romantic, I must paint it. 

Epistle ii. Line 15. 

* Tempora mutantur nos et mutamur in illis. 

BORBONIUS. 

13 



194 pope. 

Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it 
Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute. 
Epistle ii. Line 19. 
Fine by defect, and delicately weak. 

Epistle ii. Line -13. 
With too much quickness ever to be taught ; 
With too much thinking to have common thought. 
Epistle ii. Line 97. 
To heirs unknown descends th' unguarded store, 
Or wanders, heaven-directed, to the poor. 

Epistle ii. Line 149. 
Virtue she finds too painful an endeavor, 
Content to dwell in decencies forever. 

Epistle ii. Line 163. 
Men, some to business, some to pleasure take ; 
But every woman is at heart a rake. 

Epistle ii. Line 215 
See how the world its veterans rewards ! 
A youth of frolics, an old age of cards. 

Epistle ii. Line 243. 
Oh ! blessed with temper, whose unclouded ray 
Can make to-morrow cheerful as to-day. 

Epistle ii. Line 257. 
She who ne'er answers till a husband cools, 
Or, if she rules him, never shows she rules. 

Epistle ii. Line 20 1 . 
And mistress of herself, though china fall. 

Epistle ii. Line 208. 
Woman 's at best a contradiction still. 

Epistle ii. Line 270 



pope. 195 

(Vho shall decide, when doctors disagree, 
And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me ? 

Epistle iii. Line 1 
Blest paper-credit ! last and best supply ! 
That lends corruption tighter wings to fly. 

Epistle iii. Line 39 
But thousands die without or this or that, 
Die, and endow a college or a cat. 

Epistle iii. Line 95. 
The ruling passion, be it what it will, 
The ruling passion conquers reason still. 

- Epistle iii. Line 153. 
Extremes in nature equal good produce. 

Epistle iii. Line 161. 
Bise, honest muse ! and sing the man of Boss. 

Epistle iii. Line 250. 
Who builds a church to God, and not to fame, 
Will never mark the marble with his name. 

Epistle iii. Line 285. 
Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, 
And though no science, fairly worth the seven. 

Epistle iv. Line 43. 
To rest, the cushion and soft dean invite, 
Who never mentions hell to ears polite.* 

Epistle iv. Line 149. 
* In the reign of Charles II. a certain worthy divine at 
"Whitehall thus addressed himself to the auditory at the con- 
elusion of his sermon : — "In short, if you don't live up to the 
precepts of the gospel, but abandon yourselves to your irreg- 
ular appetites, yon must expect to receive your reward in a 
certain place, which 't is not good manners to mention here." 
— Tom Brown. Laconics. 



Qaa 



196 pope. 

an essay on criticise. 
'T is with our judgments as our watches, none 
Go just alike, yet each helieves his own.* 

Part i. Line 9 
One science only will one genius fit ; 
So vast is art, so narrow human wit. 

Part i. Line GO- 
And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art. 

Part i. Line 153. 
Pride, the never failing vice of fools. 

Part ii. Line 4. 
A little learning is a dangerous thing ; 
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring : f 
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, 
And drinking largely sobers us again. 

Part ii. Line 15. 
Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise. 

Part ii. Line 32. 
"Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, 
Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be. % 

Part. ii. Line 53. 

* But as when an authentic watch is shown, 
Each man winds up and rectifies his own, 
/ So in our very judgments, &c. 

Suckling. Epilogue to Aglaura. 

t A little philosophy inelineth man's mind to atheism, but 

depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to 'religion. 

Lokd Bacon. Essay on Atheism. 

| " High characters," cries one, and he would see 

Things that ne'er were, nor are, nor e'er will be. 

Suckling. Epilogue to The Goblins. 



pope. 197 

True wit is nature to advantage dressed, 
What oft was thought, hut ne'er so well expressed. 

Pan ii. Line 97. 
"Words are like leaves ; and where they most 

ahound, 
Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found. 

Part ii. Line 109 
Such labored nothings, in so strange a style. 

Part ii. Line 126. 
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold, 
Alike fantastic, if too new or old : 
Be not the first by whom the new are tried, 
Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. 

Part ii. Line 133. 
These equal syllables alone require, 
Though oft the ear the open vowels tire, 
"While expletives their feeble aid do join, 
And ten low words oft creep in one dull line. 

Part ii. Line 1M. 
A needless Alexandrine ends the song, 
That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length 
along * Part ii. Line 156. 

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, 
As those move easiest who have learned to dance. 
Part ii. Line 162. 

The sound must seem an echo to the sense : 
Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, 

* Solvuntur, tardosque trahit sinus ultimus orbes. 

Yirgil. Georyics, Lib. iii. 421 



198 pope. 

And the' smooth stream in smoother numbers 

flows; 
But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, 
The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent 

roar. 
When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to 

throw, 
The line too labors, and the words move slow ; 
Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, 
Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the 

main. Part ii. Line 165. 

For fools admire, but men of sense approve. 

Part ii. Line 191. 
Envy will merit as its shade pursue, 
But Like a shadow, proves the substance true. 

Part ii. Line 266. 
To err is human, to forgive divine. 

Part ii. Line 325. 
All seems infected that th' infected spy, 
As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye. 

Part ii. Line 358. 
And make each day a critic on the last. 

Part iii. Line 12. 
Men must be taught as if you taught them not, 
And things unknown proposed as things forgot. 

Part iii. Line 15, 
The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, 
With loads of learned lumber in his head. 

Part iii. Line 53. 



pope. 199 

For fools rush in where angels fear to tread. 

Part iii. Line 66. 
Led by the light of the Maeonian star. 

Part iii. Line 89. 
Content if hence the unlearned their wants may 

view, 
The learned reflect on what before they knew.* 

Part iii. Line 179. 

THE RAPE OF THE LOCK. 

What dire offence from amorous causes springs, 
What mighty contests rise from trivial things. 

Canto i. Line 1. 
And all Arabia breathes from yonder box. 

Canto i. Line 134. 
On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore, 
Which Jews might kiss, and infidels adore. 

Canto ii. Line 7. 
If to her share some female errors fall, 
Look on her face, and you '11 forget them all. 

Canto ii. Line 17. 
Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare, 
And beauty draws us with a single hair.f 

Canto ii. Line 27. 
* " Indocti discant et anient meminisse periti." 
This Latin hexameter, which is commonly ascribed to Horace, 
appeared for the first time as an epigraph to President Re- 
nault's Abrege Chronologique, and in the preface to the third 
edition of this work, He'nault acknowledges that he had given 
it as a translation of this couplet. 
t She knows her man, and when you rant and swear, 
Can draw you to her with a single hair. 

Deydex. Persius, Satire i 



200 pope. 

Here thou, great Anna ! whom three realms obey, 
Dost sometimes counsel take — and sometimes tea. 

Canto iii. Line 7. 
At every Avord a reputation dies. 

Canto iii. Line 10, 
The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, 
And wretches hang, that jurymen may dine. 

Canto iii. Line 21. 
Coffee, which makes the politician wise, 
And see through all things with his hall-shut eyes. 
Canto iii. Line 117. 
The meeting points the sacred hair dissever 
From the fair head, forever, and forever ! 

Canto iii. Line 153. 

wins the soul. 
Canto v. Line 34. 



EPISTLE TO DE. ARBUTHNOT. 
PROLOGUE TO THE SATIRES. 

Line 1. 

Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, 
They rave, recite, and madden round the land. 

Line 5. 
E'en Sunday shines no Sabbath-day to me. 

Line 12 
Is there a parson much bemused in beer, 
A maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, 



POPE. 201 

A clerk foredoomed his father's soul to cross, 
Who pens a stanza when he should engross. 

Line 15. 
Friend to my life, which did not you prolong, 
The world had wanted many an idle song. 

Line 27. 
Obliged by hunger and request of friends. 

Line 44. 
Fired that the house rejects him, " 'sdeath I '11 

print it, 
And shame the fools." Line 61 

No creature smarts so little as a fool. Line 84 

Destroy his fib, or sophistry, in vain ! 

The creature 's at his dirty work again. Line 91. 

As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame, 

I lisped in numbers, for the numbers came. 

Line 127 
Pretty ! in amber to observe the forms, 
Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms ! 
The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, 
But wonder how the devil they got there. 

Line 169 
And he whose fustian 's so sublimely bad, 
It is not poetry, but prose run mad. Line 187 

Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, 
Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne. 

Line 197 



202 pope. 

Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, 
And without sneering teach the rest to sneer ; 
Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, 
Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike. 

Line 201. 
By flatterers besieged, 
And so obliging that he ne'er obliged ; 
Like Cato, give his little senate laws, 
And sit attentive to his own applause. Line 207. 

Who but must laugh, if such a man there be ? 
Who would not weep, if Atticus were he ? 

Line 213. 
Cursed be the verse, how well soe'er it flow, 
That tends to make one worthy man my foe. 

Line 283. 
Satire or sense, alas ! can Sporus feel, 
Who breaks a butterfly upon a Avheel ? Line 307. 

Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, 

As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. 

Line 314. 
Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust. 

Line 333. 
Me, let the tender office long engage 
To rock the cradle of reposing age, 
With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, 
Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death ; 
Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, 
And keep awhile one parent from the sky. 

LinekYd. 



203 



SATIRES, EPISTLES, AXD ODES OF HORACE. 

Lord Fanny spins a thousand such a day. 

Book ii. Satire i. Line 6. 
Satire 's my weapon, hut I 'm too discreet 
To run a muck, and tilt at all I meet. 

Book ii. Satire i. Line 69 
But touch me, and no minister so sore ; 
"Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time 
Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme ; 
Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, 
And the sad burden of some merry song. 

Book ii. Satire i. Line 76. 
There St. John mingles with my friendly howl, 
The feast of reason and the flow of soul. 

Book ii. Satire i. Line 127. 
For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best, 
"Welcome the coming, speed the going guest.* 

Book ii. Satire ii. Line 159. 
Above all Greek, above all Roman fame, f 

Book ii. Epistle i. Line 26. 
The mob of gentlemen who wrote with ease. 

Book ii. Epistle i. Line 108. 
One simile that solitary shines 
In the dry desert of a thousand lines. 

Book ii. Epistle i. Line 111. 
Who says in verse what others say in prose. 

Book ii. Epistle i. Line 201. 

* See the Odyssey, Book xv. line 84. 
t Above any Greek or Roman name. 

Dkydex. Upon the Death of Lord Eastings. 



204 pope. 

Waller was smooth ; but Dryden taught to join 
The varying verse, the full resounding line, 
The long majestic march, and energy divine. 

Book ii. Epistle i. Line 266. 
The last and greatest art, the art to blot. 

Book ii. Epistle i. Line 280. 
The many-headed monster of the pit. 

Book ii. Epistle i. Line 304. 
Years following years steal something every day ; 
At last they steal us from ourselves away. 

Book ii. Epistle ii. Line 72. 
The vulgar boil, the learned roast an egg. 

Book ii. Epistle ii. Line 85. 
Words that wise Bacon or brave Raleigh spoke. 

Book ii. Epistle ii. Line 163. 
Vain was the chief's, the sage's pride ! 
They had no poet, and they died. 

Book iv. Ode 9. 
Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame. 

Epilogue to the. Satires. Dialogue i. Line 136 
Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night : 
God said, " Let Newton be ! " and all was light. 
Epitaph intended for Sir Isaac Neuion. 



THE DUNCIAD. 

thou ! whatever title please thine ear, 
Dean, Drapier, Bickerstaff, or Gulliver ! 
Whether thou choose Cervantes' serious air, 
Or laugh and shake in Rabelais' easy-chair. 

Book i. Line 21, 



POPE. 205 

And solid pudding against empty praise. 

Book i. Line 54 
Noav night descending, the proud scene was o'er, 
But lived in Settle's numbers one day more. 

Book i. Line 89. 
Sleepless themselves to give their readers sleep. 

Book i. Line 91 
Next o'er his books his eyes began to roll 
In pleasing memory of all he stole. 

Book i. Line 127. 
How index-learning turns no student pale, 
Yet holds the eel of science by the tail. 

Book i. Line 279. 
And gentle Dulness ever loves a joke. 

Book ii. Line 34. 
All crowd, "who foremost shall be damned to fame. 
Book iii. Line 158. 
Silence, ye wolves ! while Ealph to Cynthia howls, 
And makes night hideous ; * — answer him, ye owls. 
Book iii. Line 165. 
A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits. 

Book iv. Line 92. 
The right divine of kings to govern wrong. 

Book iv. Line 188. 
Stuff the head 
With all such reading as was never read ; 
For thee explain a thing till all men doubt it, 
And write about it, goddess, and about it. 

Book iv. Line 249 
* Making night hideous. 

Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 4.. 



206 POPE. 

Led by my hand, lie sauntered Europe round, 
And gathered every vice on Christian ground. 

Book iv. Line 311. 
Judicious drank, and greatly daring dined. 

Book iv. Line 318. 
Stretched on the rack of a too easy chair, 
And heard thy everlasting yawn confess 
The pains and penalties of idleness. 

Book iv. Line 342. 

E'en Palinurus nodded at the helm. 

Book iv. Line 614. 
Religion, blushing, veils her sacred fires, 
And unawares Morality expires, 
Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine ; 
Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine ! 
Lo ! thy dread empire, Chaos, is restored ; 
Light dies before thy uncreating word : 
Thy hand, great Anarch ! lets the curtain fall ; 
And universal darkness buries all. 

Book iv. Line 649. 



ELOISA TO ABELAED. 

Heaven first taught letters for some wretch's 

aid, 
Some banished lover, or some captive maid. 

Line 51. 
Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul, 
And waft a sigh from Indus to the Pole. Line 57. 



pope. 207 

Curse on all laws but those which love has made, 
Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, 
Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies. 

Line 7i, 
And love the offender } T et detest the offence. 

Line 1U2. 
How happy is the blameless vestal's lot ! 
The world forgetting, by the world forgot. 

Line 207. 
One thought of thee puts all the pomp to flight ; 
Priests, tapers, temples, swim before my sight.* 

Line 273. 
See my lips tremble and my eyeballs roll ; 
Suck my last breath, and catch my flying soul. 

Line 324. 
He best can paint them who shall feel them most. 

Line last. 



UNIVERSAL PRAYER. 

Father of all ! in every age, 

In every clime adored, 
By saint, by savage, and by sage, 

Jehovah, Jove, or Lord. 

And binding nature fast in fate, 

Left free the human will. Ibid. 

And deal damnation round the land. Ibid. 

* Priests, tapers, temples, swam before my sight. 

Edmusd Smith. Phcedra and Eipnohfvs. 



208 



Teach me to feel another's woe, 

To hide the fault I see ; 
That mercy I to others show, 

That mercy show to me. Ibid. 



Vital spark of heavenly flame, 
Quit, quit this mortal frame. 

The Dying Christian to his Soul 
Hark ! they whisper ; angels say, 
Sister Spirit, come away ! Ibid. 



Tell me, my soul, can this be death ? 



Ibid. 



Lend, lend your wings ! I mount ! I fly ! 

grave ! where is thy victory ? 

death ! where is thy sting ? Ibid. 



Thus let me live, unseen, unknown, 

Thus unlamented let me die; 
Steal from the world, and not a stone 

Tell where I lie. Ode on Solitude. 

What beckoning ghost along the moonlight shade 
Invites my steps and points to yonder glade ? 

To the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady. Line 1. 

By foreign hands thy dying eyes were closed, 
By foreign hands thy decent limbs composed, 
By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned, 
By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned. 

Ibid. Line 51 



POPE. 209 

And bear about the mockery of woe 

To midnight dances, and the public show. 

Ibid. Line 57. 
How loved, how honored once, avails thee not, 
To whom related, or by whom begot ; 
A heap of dust alone remains of thee ; 
'T is all thou art, and all the proud shall be ! 

Ibid. LineU. 
Ye Gods ! annihilate but space and time, 
And make two lovers happy. 
Martinus Scriblerus on the Art of Sinking in Poetry. Ch. 11. 

Of manners gentle, of affections mild ; 

In wit a man, simplicity a child.* Epitaph on Gay. 

The saint sustained it, but the woman died. 

Epitaph on Mrs. Corbet. 
Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide, 
Or gave his father grief but when he died. 

Epitaph on the Hon. S. Harcourt. 
A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, 
And greatly falling with a falling state. 

Prologue to Mr. Addison's Cato. 
You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come ; 
Knock as you please, there 's nobody at home.f 

Epigram. 

* Her wit was more than man, her innocence a child. 

Diiyde.x. Elegy on Mrs. Killegrew. 
t His wit invites you by his looks to come; 
But when you knock, it never is at home. 

Cowper. Conversation. 
14 



210 POPE. 

I am his Highness's dog at Kew ; 
Pray tell me, sir, whose clog are you ? 

On the Collar of a Dog. 
Descend, ye Nine. Ode on St. Cecilia's Day. 

There take, (says Justice), take ye each a shell, 
"We thrive at Westminster on foois like you : 
'T Avas a fat oyster — live in peace — adieu. 

Verbatim from Boileau. 



ODYSSEY. 

Few sons attain the praise 
Of their great sires, and most their sires disgrace. 
Book ii. Line 315. 
Far from gay cities and the ways of men. 

Book xiv. Line 410. 
Who love too much, hate in the like extreme. 

Book xv. Line 79. 
True friendship's laws are hy this rule expressed, 
Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.* 

Book xv. Line 83. 
This is the Jew 
That Shakspeare drew.f 



* Welcome the coming, speed the going guest. 

Book II. Satire ii. Line 160. Page 203. 

t On the 14th February, 1741, Maeklin established his fame 
as an actor, in the character of Shylock, in the "Merchant of 
Venice," and restored to the stage a play which had been forty 
years supplanted by Lord Lansdowne's "Jew of Venice.'' 



TICK ELL. — PARNELL. 211 



THOMAS TICKELL. 1686-1740. 

Nor e'er "was to the bowers of bliss conveyed 
A fairer spirit, or more welcome shade. 

On the Death of Addison. Line 45 
There taught us how to live ; and (oh ! too high 
The price for knowledge) taught us how to die.* 
On tlie Death of Addison. Line 81. 
I hear a voice you cannot hear, 
Which says I must not stay, 
I see a hand you cannot see, 
Which beckons me away. 

Colin and Lucy. 



THOMAS PARNELL. 1679-1718. 

Remote from man, with God he passed the days, 
Prayer all his business, all his pleasure praise. 

The Hermit. Line 5. 

Macklin's performance of this character so forcibly struck a 
gentleman in the pit, that he, as it were involuntarily, ex- 
claimed, 

"This is the Jew 
That Shakspeare drew." 

It has been said that this gentleman was Mr. Pope, and that 
he meant his panegyric on Macklin as a satire against Lord 
Lansdowne. Biog. Dram. vol. i. pt. ii. p. 469. 

* To teach him bow to live, 
And oh ! still harder lesson ! how to die. 

Beilby Porteus. Death. 



212 GAT. 

Let those love now, who never lov'd before, 
Let those who always loved, now love the more.* 
Tlie Pervigilium Veneris, 



JOHN GAY. 1688-1732. 
'T was when the sea was roaring 
With hollow blasts of wind, 
A damsel lay deploring 
All on a rock reclined. 

The What D'ye Call 't. Act ii. Sc. 8. 
So comes a reckoning when the banquet 's o'er, 
The dreadful reckoning, and men smile no more. 

Ibid. Act ii. Sc. 9. 
O'er the hills and far away. 

The Beggars' Opera. Act i. Sc. 1. 
How happy could I be with either, 
Were t' other dear charmer away. Ibid. 

All in the Downs the fleet was moored. 

Sweet William's Farewell to Blackeyed Susan. 



Whence is thy learning ? Hath thy toil 
O'er books consumed the midnight oil ? f 
The Shepherd and the . 
* "Written in the time of Julius Caesar, and by some as- 
cribed to Catullus: — 

Cras amet qui numquam amayit ; 
Quique amavit, eras amet. 
t The midnight oil was a common phrase; it is used by 
Shenstone, Cowper, Lloyd, and others. 



MONTAGUE. 213 

When yet was ever found a mother 
Who 'd give her booby for another ? 

The Mother, the Nurse, and the Fairy. 
While there is life there 's hope, he cried.* 

The Sick Man and the Angel. 
And when a lady 's in the case, 
You know all other things give place. 

The Hare and many Friends. 

Life 's a jest, and all things show it ; 
I thought so once, and now I know it. 

Epitaph on Himself. 



LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGUE. 
1690-1762. 

Let this great maxim be my virtue's guide, — 
In part she is to blame that has been tried ; 
He comes too near, that comes to be denied.f 

The Lady's Resolve. 

And we meet, with champagne and a chicken, at 

last.j The Lover. 

* , ~Ekm6ec kv faoioiv, aveTimarot 81 d-avovrec. 

Theocritus. Id. iv. Line 42. 
t The Larhfs Resolve was a fugitive piece, written on a 
window by Lady Montague, after her marriage (1713). The 
ast lines were taken from Overbury: — The Wife, St. 36. 
" In part to blame is she 
Which hath without consent been only tried ; 
lie comes too near that comes to be denied. '' 
% What say you to such a supper with such a woman? 

Byeojsi. Note to Letter on Bowles. 



214 BYROM.—FARQ UEAB. 

JOHN BYROM. 1691-1763. 
Some say, compared to Bononcini, 
That Mynheer Handel 's hut a ninny ; 
Others aver that lie to Handel 
Is scarcely fit to hold a candle. 
Strange all this difference should be 
'Twixt Tweedledum and Tweedledee. 

On the Feuds between Handel and Bononcini.% 
As clear as a whistle. The Astrologer 

Bone and skin, two millers thin, 
Would starve us all, or near it ; 

But be it known to Skin and Bone 
That Flesh and Blood can't bear it. 

Epigram on Two Monopolists. 



GEORGE FARQUHAR. 1678-1707. 

Cos. Pray now, what may be that same bed of 
honor. 

Kite. Oh ! a mighty large bed ! bigger by half 
than the great bed at "Ware — ten thousand peo- 
ple may lie in it together, and never feel one 
another. The Recruiting Officer. Act i. Sc. 1. 

* ".Nourse asked me if I had seen the verses upon Handel 
and Bononcini, not knowing that they were mine." Byrom's 
Remains ( Cheltenham Soc.) vol. i. p. 173. The last two lines 
have been attributed to Swift and Pope. Vide Scott's edition 
of Swift, and Dyce's edition of Pope. 



BRERETON. — BERKELEY.— CAREY. 215 



JANE BRERETON. 1685-1740. 
The picture, placed the busts between, 
Adds to the thought much strength ; 
"Wisdom and Wit are little seen, 
But Folly 's at full length.* 
On Beau Nash's Picture at full length, between the Busts of 
Sir Isaac Newton and Mr. Pope.* 



BISHOP BERKELEY. 1684-1753. 
Westward the course of empire takes its way ; 

The four first acts already past, 
A fifth shall close the drama with the day ; 
Time's noblest offspring is the last. 
On the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America; 



HENRY CAREY. 1663-1743. 

God save our gracious king, 

Long live our noble king, 

God save the king. God save the King.] 

To thee, and gentle Rigdom Funnidos, 
Our gratulations flow in streams unbounded. 

Chrononhotonthologos. Act i. Sc. 3. 

* This Epigram is fceneralh" ascribed to Chesterfield. 

t The authorship both of the words and music of " God 
save the King " has Ionic been a matter of dispute, and is 
still unsettled, though the weight of the evidence is in favor 
of Carey's claim. 



216 BLAIR. 

Go call a coach, and let a coach he called, 
And let the man who calleth be the caller ; 
And in his calling let him nothing call, 
But Coach ! Coach ! Coach ! for a coach, ye 
gods ! Ibid. Act ii. Sc. 4. 

Of all the girls that are so smart, 

There 's none like pretty Sally.* Sally in our Alley. 



ROBERT BLAIR. 1699-1747. 
The Grave, dread thing ! 
Men shiver when thou 'rt named : Nature appall'd, 
Shakes off her wonted firmness. The Grave. Line 9. 

Friendship ! mysterious cement of the soul ! 
Sweet'ner of life ! and solder of society ! 

Ibid. Line 88. 
Of joys departed, 
Not to return, how painful the remembrance. 

Ibid. Line 109 
The good he scorned, 
Stalked off reluctant, like an ill-used ghost, 
Not to return ; or if it did, in visits 
Like those of angels, short and far between. 

Ibid. Part ii. Line 586 

* Of all the girls that e'er was seen 
There 's none so line as Nelly. 

Swift. Ballad on Miss Nelly Bennet. 



217 



EDWARD YOUNG. 1681-1765. 
NIGHT THOUGHTS. 

Tired Nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep ! 

Night i. Line 1 . 
Creation sleeps. 'T is as the gen'ral pulse 
Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause ; 
An awful pause ! prophetic of her end. 

Night i. Line 23. 
The bell strikes one. "We take no note of time, 
But from its loss. Night i. Line 55. 

Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour. 

Night i. Line 67 
To waft a feather or to drown a fly. 

Night i. Line 154. 
Insatiate archer ! could not one suffice ? 
Thy shaft flew thrice : and thrice my peace was 

slain ; 
And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had filled her 
horn. Night i. Line 212 

Be wise to-day ; 't is madness to defer.* 

Night i. Line 390. 

Procrastination is the thief of time. 

Night i. Line 393. 

* Defer not till to-morrow to be wise, 
To-morrow's sun to thee may never rise. 

Congbeve. Letter to Cobliam. 



218 YOUNG. 

At thirty, man suspects himself a fool ; 
Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan. 

Night i. Liie 417 
All men think all men mortal hut themselves. 

Niglii i. Line 424. 
lie mourns the dead, who lives as they desire. 

Night ii. Line 24. 
And what its worth, ask death-beds ; they can tell. 

Night ii. Line 51. 

Thy purpose firm, is equal to the deed : 
Who does the best his circumstance allows, 
Does well, acts nobly ; angels could no more. 

Night ii. Line 90. 
" I 've lost a day " — the prince who nobly cried, 
Had been an emperor without his crown. 

Night ii. Line 99. 
Ah ! how unjust to nature, and himself, 
Is thoughtless, thankless, inconsistent man. 

Night ii. Line 112. 
The spirit walks of every day deceased. 

Night ii. Line 180. 
Time flies, death urges, knells call, heaven invites, 
Hell threatens. Night ii. Line 292. 

'T is greatly wise to talk with our past hours, 
And ask them, what report they bore to heaven. 

Night ii. Line 376. 
Thoughts shut up, Avant air, 
And spoil like bales unopened to the sun. 

Nigld ii. Line 466 



YOUNG. 219 

How blessings brighten as they take their flight ! 

Night ii. Line 602. 
The chamber where the good man meets his 

fate, 
Is privileged beyond the common walk 
Of virtuous life, quite in the verge of heaven. 

Night ii. Line 633. 
A death-bed 's a detector of the heart. 

Night ii. Line 641„ 
"Woes cluster ; rare are solitary woes ; 
They love a train, they tread each other's heel.* 

Night iii. Line 63. 
Beautiful as sweet ! 
And young as beautiful ! and soft as young ! 
And gay as soft ! and innocent as gay ! 

Night iii. Line 81. 
Lovely in death the beauteous ruin lay ; 
And if in death still lovely, lovelier there ; 
Far lovelier ! pity swells the tide of love. 

Night iii. Line 104. 
Heaven's sovereign saves all beings but himself, 
That hideous sight, — a naked human heart. 

Night iii. Line 226. 

The knell, the shroud, the mattock, and the grave, 

The deep damp vault, the darkness, and the 

worm. Night iv. Line 10. 

* One woe doth tread upon another's heel, — 

So fast they follow. Hamlet, Act iv. Sc. 7. 

Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave. 

Hjskrick. Hespei-ides, Aphorisms, Xo. 287. 



220 YOUNG. 

Man makes a death, which Xature never made.* 
Night iv. Line 15 
Wi=liing. of all employments, is the worst. 

Night iv. Line 71 
Man wants but little, nor that little, long.f 

Night iv. Line 118 
A God all mercy, is a God unjust. 

Night iv. Line 23: 
'T is impious in a good man to be sad. 

Night iv. Line 676 
A christian is the highest style of man.i 

Night iv. Line 788. 
Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die. 

Night iv. Line 843, 
By night an atheist half-believes a God. 

Night v. Line 177. 
Early, bright, transient, chaste as morning dew, 
She sparkled, was exhaFd, and went to heaven. 

Night v. Line 600 
Like our shadows, 
Our wishes lengthen, as our sun declines. 

Night v. Line 661. 

* And taught the sons of men 
To make a death -which Nature never made. 

Beilbt Porteus. Death. 
* Man wants but little here below, 
Xor wants that little long. 

Goldsmith. The Hermit. 
X A Christian is God Almighty's gentleman. 

J. C. Hake. Guesses at Truth. 



YOUNG. 221 

"Wlille man is growing, life is in decrease ; 
And cradles rock us nearer to the tomb. 
Our birth is nothing but our death begun.* 

Night v. Line 717. 
That life is long which answers life's great end. 

Xight v. Line 773. 
The man of wisdom is the man of years. 

Night v. Line 775. 
Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow. 

Night v. Line 101 1. 
Pigmies are pigmies still, though perched on 

Alps, 
And pyramids are pyramids in vales. 

Night vi. Line 309. 
Virtue alone outbuilds the Pyramids ; 
Her monuments shall last, when Egypt's fall. 

Night vi. Line 314. 
And all may do, what has by man been done. 

Nigld vi. Line G06. 
The man that blushes is not quite a brute. 

Night vii. Line 496, 
Prayer ardent opens heaven. Night viii. Line 721. 

A man of pleasure is a man of pains. 

Night viii. Line 793. 
To frown at pleasure, and to smile in pain. 

Night viii. Line 1054. 



* Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in 
the grave. — Bishop Hall's Epistles. Dec. iii. Epist. ii. 



222 YOUNG. 

Final Ruin fiercely drives 
Her ploughshare o'er creation.* Night ix. Line 167 

An undevout astronomer is mad. 

Night ix. Line 771, 
The course of Nature is the art of God.f 

Night ix. Line 1267. 

LOVE OF FAME. 

The love of praise, howe'er concealed by art 
Reigns more or less, and glows in ev'ry heart. 

Satire i. Line 51. 
Some, for renown, on scraps of learning dote, 
And think they grow immortal as they quote. 

Satire i. Line 89. 
None think the great unhappy but the great. J 

Satire i. Line 238. 
Where nature's end of language is declined, 
And men talk only to conceal the mind.§ 

Satire ii. Line 207. 

Be wise with speed ; 

A fool at forty is a fool indeed. Satire ii. Line 282. 

* Stern Ruin's ploughshare drives elate 

Full on thy bloom. Burns. To a Mountain Daisy. 
t In brief, all things are artificial ; for Nature is the art of 
God. Sir Thomas Buowxe. Religio Medici, Sect. xvi. 

J As if misfortune made the throne her seat, 
And none could be unhappy but the great. 

Rowe. The Fair Penitent. Prologue. 
§ The germ of this thought is found in Jeremy Taylor: 
Lloyd, South, Butler, Young, and Goldsmith have repeated 
it after him; see page -400. 



YO UNG. 223 

Think nought a trifle, though it small appear ; 
Small sands the mountain, moments make the year 
And trifles life. /Satire vi Line 208. 

One to destroy, is murder by the law ; 
And gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe ; 
To murder thousands, takes a specious name, 
War's glorious art, and gives immortal fame. 

Satire vii. Line 55. 
How commentators each dark passage shun, 
And hold their farthing candle to the sun.* 

Satire vii. Line 97. 
The blood will follow where the knife is driven, 
The flesh will quiver where the pincers tear. 

77ie Revenge. Act v. Sc. 1. 
Souls made of fire, and children of the sun, 
With whom revenge is virtue. 

Ibid. Act v. Sc. 2. 
Accept a miracle, instead of wit, 
See two dull lines with Stanhope's pencil writ. 
Lines Written with the Diamond Pencil of Lord Chester field. \ 
Time elaborately thrown away. 

The Last Day. Book i. 
In records that defy the tooth of time. 

The Statesman's Creed, 

* Imitated by Crabbe in the Parish Register, Part i., in- 
troduction, and taken oi'iginally from Burton's Anatomy of 
Melancholy, Part iii. Sect. 2, Mem. 1, Subs. 2. " But to en- 
large or illustrate this power or effects of love is to set a can- 
dle in the sun." 

t From Mitford's Life of Young. 



224 



ISAAC WATTS. 1674-1748. 
DIVINE SONGS. 

A flower, when offered in the hud, 

Is no vain sacrifice. Song xiL 

Let dogs delight to hark and hite, 

For God hath made them so ; 
Let bears and lions growl and fight, 

For 't is their nature too. Song xvi. 

How doth the little busy bee 

Improve each shining hour, 
And gather honey all the day, 

From every opening flower. Song xx. 

For Satan finds some mischief still 

For idle hands to do. Ibid. 

To God the Father, God the Son, 

And God the Spirit, three in one ; 
Be honor, praise, and glory given, 

By all on earth, and all in heaven. 

Glory to the Father and the Son, 
Hush ! my dear, lie still and slumber ; 

Holy angels guard thy bed ! 
Heavenly blessings without number 

Gently falling on thy head. 

A Cradle Hymn. 



GREEN.*— CENTLIVRE. 225 

'T is the voice of the sluggard ; I heard him com- 
plain, 

" You have waked me too soon, I must slumber 
again." The Sluggard 

And he that does one fault at first, 
And lies to hide it, makes it two.* 

Against Lying 
Hark ! from the tombs a doleful sound. 

A Funeral Thought. 
Strange ! that a harp of thousand strings 
Should keep in tune so long. 

Hymns and Spiritual Songs. Book ii. Hymn 19. 
The mind 's the standard of the man. 

Hoik Lyricce. Book ii. False 



MATTHEW GREEN. 1696-1737. 

Fling but a stone, the giant dies. 

The Spleen. Line 9b. 



SUSANNAH CENTLIVRE. 1667-1722. 

The real Simon Pure. 

A Bold Stroke for a Wife. Act v. Sc. 1. 

* Cf. Herbert. The Church Porch. 
15 



226 EILL.— TUKE. 

AARON HILL. 1685-1750. 
First, then, a woman will, or won 't, — depend 

on 't ; 
If she will do 't, she will ; and there 's an end 

on 't. 
But, if she won 't, since safe and sound your 

trust is, 
Fear is affront : and jealousy injustice.* 

Epilogue to Zara. 
Tender handed stroke a nettle, 

And it stings you for your pains ; 
Grasp it like a man of mettle, 
And it soft as silk remains. 

Verses written on a Window in Scotland. 
'T is the same with common natures : 

Use 'em kindly, they rebel ; 
But be rough as nutmeg-graters, 

And the rogues obey you well. Ibid. 



SIR SAMUEL TUKE. 1G73. 

He is a fool who thinks by force or skill 
To turn the current of a woman's will. 

Adventures of Five Hours. Act v. Sc. 3. 

* The following lines are copied from the pillar erected on 
the mount in the Dane John Field, Canterbury: — 
Where is the man who has the power and skill 
To stem the torrent of a woman's will ? 
For if she will, she will, you may depend on 't ; 
And if she won 't, she won 't ; so there 's an end on 't. 



THOMSON. 227 

JAMES THOMSON. 1700-1748. 
THE SEASONS. 

Come, gentle Spring ! ethereal Mildness ! come. 

Spring. Line 1 
Base envy withers at another's joy, 
And hates that excellence it cannot reach. 

Line 283. 
But who can paint 
Like Nature ? Can imagination boast, 
Amid its gay creation, hues like hers ? Line 465. 

Amid the roses fierce Repentance rears 

Her snaky crest. Line 996. 

Delightful task ! to rear the tender thought, 

To teach the young idea how to shoot. Line 1149. 

An elegant sufficiency, content, 
Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books, 
Ease and alternate labor, useful life, 
Progressive virtue, and approving Heaven ! 

Line 1158. 
The meek-eyed Morn appears, mother of dews. 

Summer. Line 47. 

But yonder comes the powerful King of Day 
Rejoicing in the east. Line 81. 

Ships dim-discovered, dropping from the clouds. 

Line 946. 



228 THOMSON. 

Sighed and looked unutterable things. Line 1188. 

A lucky chance, that oft decides the fate 

Of mighty monarchs. Line 1285 

So stands the statue that enchants the world, 
So bending tries to veil the matchless boast, 
The mingled beauties of exulting Greece. 

Line 1346. 
Loveliness 
!Needs not the foreign aid of ornament, 
But is when unadorned, adorned the most. 

Autumn, Line 204. 
For still the world prevailed, and its dread laugh. 
Which scarce the firm philosopher can scorn. 

Line 233. 
See Winter comes, to rule the varied year. 

Winter. Line 1. 
Cruel as death, and hungry as the grave. 

Line 393. 
The kiss, snatched hasty from the side-long maid. 
• Line 625. 

These as they change, Almighty Father ! these 
Are but the varied God. The rolling year 
Is full of Thee. Hymn. Line 1. 

Shade, unperceived, so softening into shade. 

Line 25. 
From seeming evil still educing good. Line 114 



DYER. 229 

Come then, expressive silence, muse his praise. 

Line 118. 
Placed far amid the melancholy main. 

Castle of Indolence. Canto i. Stanza 30. 
A little round, fat, oily man of God. 

Canto i. St. 69 
Rule Britannia, Britaimia rules the waves ; 
Britons never will be slaves. Alfred. Act ii. Sc. 5. 

For ever, Fortune, wilt thou prove 

An unrelenting foe to love ; 
And, when we meet a mutual heart, 
Come in between and bid us part ? 

Song, " For ever Fortune." 
Sophonisba ! Sophonisba, ! * 

Sophonisba. Act iii. Sc. 2. 
Whoe'er amidst the sons 
Of reason, valour, liberty, and virtue, 
Displays distinguished merit, is a noble 
Of Nature's own creating. Coriolanus. Act iii. Sc. 3. 



JOHN DYEE. 1700-1758. 
Ever charming, ever new, 
"When will the landscape tire the view ? 

Grongar Hill. Line 103. 

The line was altered, after the second edition, to 
" O Sophonisba! I am wholly thine." 



230 D ODDR1D GE. — D ODSLE 7. — BRO WN. 

PHILIP DODDRIDGE. 1702-1751. 

Live while you live, the epicure would say, 
And seize the pleasures of the present day ; 
Live while you live, the sacred preacher cries, 
And give to God each moment as it flies. 
Lord, in my views let both united be ; 
I live in pleasure, when I live to thee. 

Epigram on his Family Arms.* 



ROBERT DODSLEY. 1703-1764. 

One kind kiss before we part, 

Drop a tear and bid adieu ; 
Though we sever, my fond heart 

Till we meet shall pant for you. 

The Parting Riss. 



JOHN BROWN. 1715-1765. 

Now let us thank the Eternal Power : convinced 
That Heaven but tries our virtue by affliction, 
That oft the cloud which wraps the present hoi^r, 
Serves but to brighten all our future days. 

Barbarossa. Act v. Sc. & 

* From Ortin's Life of Doddridge. 



231 



SAMUEL JOHNSON. 1709-1784. 
VANITY OF HUM AX WISHES. 

Let observation with extensive view 

Survey mankind, from China to Peru. Line. 1. 

There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, — 
Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail. 

Line 1-59. 
He left a name, at which the world grew pale, 
To point a moral, or adorn a tale. Line 221. 

Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know 
That life protracted is protracted woe. Line 257. 

Superfluous lags the veteran on the stage. 

Line 303. 
From Marlborough's eyes the tears of dotage 

flow, 
Ami Swift expires, a driveller and a show. 

Line 316, l 

Roll darkling down the torrent of his fate. 

Line 346. 
Catch, then, O catch the transient hour ; 

Improve each moment as it flies ; 
Life's a short summer — man a flower — 
He dies — alas ! how soon he dies. 

Winter. An Ode. 



232 JOHNSON. 

LONDON. 

Of all the griefs that harass the distressed, 
Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest. Line lj>fi 

This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, 
S]^wj_-is° y w-rth h y pov^rt}^ rj^p^ggprl j ,-„ r 175. 

Each change of many-colored life he drew. 
Exhausted worlds and then imagined new. 

Prologue on the Opening of Drury Lane Theatre. 
And panting Time toiled after him in vain. Ibid. 

For we that live to please must please to live. 

Ihid. 
Hoav small, of all that human hearts endure, 
That part which laws or kings can cause or cure ! 
Still to ourselves in every place consigned, 
Our own felicity we make or find. 
"With secret course, which no loud storms annoy, 
Glides the smooth current of domestic joy. 

Lines added to Goldsmith's Traveller. 
Trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay. 

Line added to Goldsmith's Desert/ d Village. 
Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of 
fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of 
hope ; who expect that age will perform the prom- 
ises of youth, and that the deficiencies of the pres- 
ent day will be supplied by the morrow ; attend 
to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia. 

Rasstlas. Chap. i. 



jonxsox. 233 

Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are 

things.* 
From Dr. Madden' s " Boulter's Monument." Supposed to 
have been inserted by Dr. Johnson, 1745. 

In Misery's darkest cavern known, 

His useful care was ever nigh, 
"Where hopeless Anguish poured his groan, 
And lonely Want retired to die. 

Epitaph on Robert Levett. 
Phillips, whose touch harmonious could remove 
The pangs of guilty power or hapless love ; 
Rest here, distressed by poverty no more, 
Here find that calm thou gav'st so oft before ; 
Sleep, undisturbed, within this peaceful shrine, 
Till augels wake thee with a note like thine. 

Epitaph on Claudius Phillips, the Musician. 
A Poet, Naturalist, and Historian, 
Who left scarcely any style of writing untouched, 
And touched nothing that he did not adorn. f 

Epitaph on Goldsmith. 



* Words are women, deeds are men. 

Herbert. Jacula Prudent u 
Words are women, and deeds are men. 

Sir Thomas Bodley. Letter to l/is Librarian 1604. 
Words are for women; actions for men. 

Thomas Fuller. Gnomohgia. 
t Nullum quod tetigit non ornavit. 
He adorns whatever he attempts. 

Fekelon. Eulogy on Cicero 
Whatever subject he either speaks or writes upon, he adorns 
it with the most splendid eloquence. 

Chesterfield's Letters. Vol. ii. p. 289. 



234 LYTTELTON. 

Hell is paved with good intentions.* 

BosweU's Life of Johnson. Ibid 
Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat.f 

Ibid. 
Claret is the liquor for boys ; port for men ; but 
he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy. 

Ibid. 
If the man who turnips cries 
Cry not when his father dies, 
'T is a proof that he had rather 
Have a turnip than his father. 

Johnsoniana. Piozzi 30. 
A good hater. Ibid, Piozzi 39. 



LORD LYTTELTON. 1709-1773. 
For his chaste Muse employed her heaven-taught 

lyre 
None but the noblest passions to inspire, 
Not one immoral, one corrupted thoughts 
One line, which dying he could wish to blot. 

Prologue to Thomson's Coriolnnus. 
None without hope e'er loved the brightest fair, 
But love can hope where reason would despair. 

Epigram. 
* Hell is full of good meanings and wishings. 

Herbert. J acuta PruJenlum. 
t Parody on the line in Brooke's Gustavus Vasa. First 
edition. 

" Who rules o'er freemen should himself be free." 



MOORE. 235 

Where none admire, 't is useless to excel ; 
Where none are beaux, 't is vain to be a belle. 

Soliloquy on a Beauty in the Country. 

Alas ! by some degree of woe 

We every bliss must gain ; 
The heart can ne'er a transport know, 

That never feels a pain. Song. 



EDWARD MOORE. 1712-1757. 

Can't I another's face commend, 
And to her virtues be a friend, 
But instantly your forehead lowers, 
As if her merit lessened yours ? 

Fable ix. The Farmer, the Spaniel, and the Cat. 
The maid who modestly conceals 
Her beauties while she hides, reveals ; 
Give but a glimpse, and fancy draws 
Whate'er the Grecian Venus was. 

Fable x. The Spider and the Bee. 
But from the hoop's bewitching round, 
Her very shoe has power to wound. Ibid. 

Time still, as he flies, adds increase to her truth, 
And gives to her mind what he steals from her 
youth. The Happy Marriage. 

'T is now the summer of your youth : time hag 
not cropt the roses from your cheek, though sor- 
row long has washed them. 

The Gamester. Act iii. Sc. 4. 



SHENSTONE. 



WILLIAM SHENSTONE. 1714-1763. 

Whoe'er has travelled life's dull round 
Where'er his stages may have been, 
May sigh to think he still has found 
The warmest welcome at an inn.* 

Written on the Window of an Inn. 
So sweetly she bade me adieu, 
I thought that she bade me return. 

A Pastoral. Part L 
I have found out a gift for my fair ; 
I have found where the wood-pigeons breed. 

Ibid. Part ii 
For seldom shall she hear a tale 
So sad, so tender, and so true. Jemmy Dawson. 

Her cap, far whiter than the driven snow, 
Emblems right meet of decency does yield. 

The Schoolmistress. St. 5. 
Pun-provoking thyme. Ibid. St. 11. 

A little bench of heedless bishops here, 

And there a chancellor in embryo. ibid. St. 28. 



* There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, 
by which so much happiness is produced, as by a good tavern 
or iun. — Johnson. Buswell's Life, (1766.) 

Archbishop Leighton used often to say, that if he were to 
•hoose a place to die in, it should be an inn. 



PHILIPS. - AKEXSIDE. — GARRICR. 237 



JOHN PHILIPS. 1676-1708. 

My galligaskins, that have long withstood 
The winter's fury and encroaching frosts, 
By time subdued, (what will not time subdue !) 
A horrid chasm disclosed. 

The Splendid Shilling. Line 121. 



MARK AKENSIDE. 1721-1770. 
The man forget not, though in rags he lie3, 
And know the mortal through a crown's disguise. 

Epistle to Curio. 



DAVID GARRICK. 1716-1779. 

Their cause I plead, — plead it in heart and mind ; 
A fellow feeling makes one wondrous kind.* 

Prologue on Quitting the Stage in 1776, 10th June. 
Let others hail the rising sun : 
I bow to that whose race is run. 

On the Death of Mr. Pelham. 
Heaven sends us good meat, but the devil sends 

cooks. Epigram on Goldsmith's Retaliation. 

* I jvould help others, out of a fellow-feeling. — Burton. 
Inafojjiy of Melancholy ; Democritus to the Reader. 
Non iguara mali, miseris succurrere disen. 

Vikgil. JEneid, Lib. i. £30. 



238 GRAY. 

THOMAS GRAY. 1716-1771. 
ON A DISTANT PROSPECT OF ETON COLLEGE. 

Ah, happy hills ! ah, pleasing shade ! 

Ah, fields beloved in vain ! 
Where once my careless childhood strayed, 

A stranger yet to pain ! 

They hear a voice in every wind, 
And snatch a fearful joy. 

The tear forgot as soon as shed, 
The sunshine of the breast. 

Alas ! regardless of their doom, 

The little victims play ; 
No sense have they of ills to come, 

Nor care beyond to-day. 

And moody madness laughing wild, 
Amid severest woe. 

To each his sufferings ; all are men, 

Condemned alike to groan ; 
The tender for another's pain, 

The unfeeling for his own. 

Since sorrow never comes too late, 
And happiness too swiftly flies. 



GRA Y. 239 

Where ignorance is bliss, 
'T is folly to be wise.* 

THE PROGRESS OF POESY. 

O'er her warm cheek, and rising bosom, move 
The bloom of young Desire, and purple light of 
Love. Part i. St. 3. 

Ope the sacred source of sympathetic tears. 

Part iii. St. I. 

The living throne, the sapphire blaze, 
Where angels tremble while they gaze, 
He saw ; but, blasted with excess of light, 
Closed his eyes in endless night. Part iii. St. 2. 

Bright-eyed Fancy, hovering o'er, 

Scatters from her pictured urn 

Thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.f 

Part ii. St. 3. 
Beyond the limits of a vulgar fate, 
Beneath the Good how far — but far above the 
Great. p m -t iii. St. 3. 

* From ignorance our comfort flows, 
The only wretched are the wise. 

Priok. To the lion. Charles Montague. 
He that increaseth knowledge, increaseth sorrow. — Eccle- 
siastes i. 18. 
t Words that weep and tears that speak. 

Cowley. The Prophet 



240 



THE BAKD. 

Loose his beard, and hoary hair 

Streamed like a meteor to the troubled air.* 

Part i. St. 2. 
Dear as the light that visits these sad eyes ; 
Dear as the ruddy drops that warm my heart. | 

Part i. -Sit. 3. 
Give ample room, and verge enough,! 
The characters of Hell to trace. Part ii. St. 1 

Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm. 

Part ii. St. 2. 

Visions of glory, spare my aching sight. 

Part iii. St. 1. 

And truth severe, by fairy fiction drest. 

Part iii. St. 3. 

The still small voice of gratitude. 

Ode to Music. Line 64. 

* An harmless flaming meteor shone for hair, 
And fell adown his shoulders with loose care. 

CowlkV. Davidtis. Book ii. Line 102. 
The imperial ensign, which full high advanced, 
Shone like a meteor streaming to the wind. 

Paradise Lust. Book i. Line 536. 
t As dear to me as are the ruddy drops 
That visit my sad heart. 

Julius Cmsar. Act ii. Sc. 1. 
Dear as the vital warmth that feeds my life; 
Dear as these eyes that weep in fondness o'er thee. 

Otway. Venice Preserved. Act v 
{ 1 have a soul that like an ample shield, 
Can take in all, and verge enough for more. 

Diiyden. Dim Sebastian. Act i. Se. 1 



241 



ELEGY IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD. 

Each iii his narrow cell for ever laid, 
The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. 

Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile 
The short and simple annals of the poor. 

The paths of glory lead but to the grave. \ 

Where through the long-drawn aisle and lretted 

vault 
The pealing anthem swells the note of praibe. 

Can storied urn, or animated bust 

Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath ? 

Hands, that the rod of empire might have swayed, 
Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre. 

But Knowledge to their eyes her ample page 
Rich with the spoils of time, did ne'er unroll.* 

Full many a gem of purest ray serene 

The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear : 

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, 
And waste its sweetness on the desert air.f 

* Rich with the spoils of nature. — Sir Thomas Browne. 
Relic/. Med. Part i. Sect. xiii. 
t Nor waste their sweetness in the desert air. 

Churchill. Gotham. Book II. 
16 



242 GRAY. 

Some village Hampden, that, with dauntless 
breast, 

The little tyrant of his fields withstood, 
Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, 

Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood 

To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, 
And read their history in a nation's eyes. 

Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, 
And shut the gates of mercy on mankind. 

Along the cool sequestered vale of life, 
They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. 

Implores the passing tribute of a sigh. 

And many a holy text around she strews, 
That teach the rustic moralist to die. 

Nor cast one longing lingering look behind. 

E'en from the tomb the voice' of nature cries, 
E'en in our ashes, live their wonted fires.* 

THE EPITAPH. 

A youth, to fortune and to fame unknown ; 
Fair science frowned not on his humble birth, 

* Yet in our ashen cold is fire yreken. 

Chaucek Reve's Prologue, 



GRA T. 243 

And melancholy marked him for her own. 

Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere, 
Heaven did a recompense as largely send : 

He gave to misery (all he had) a tear, 
He gained from Heaven ('t was all he wished) a 
friend. 

No farther seek his merits to disclose, 

Or draw his frailties from their dread abode, 

(There they alike in trembling hope repose,) 
The bosom of his Father and his God. 

The meanest floweret of the vale, 
The simplest note that swells the gale, 
The common sun, the air, the skies, 
To him are opening paradise. 

Ode on the Pleasure arising from Virissitude. 
Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to impor- 
tune ; 
He had not the method of making a fortune. 

On his own Charactei . 
A favorite has no friend 

On the Death of a Favorite Cat. 
Rich windows that exclude the light, 

And passages that lead to nothing. 

A Long Story. 

Now as the Paradisaical pleasures of the Ma- 
hometans consist in playing upon the flute and 
lying Avitli Hour is, be mine to read eternal new 
romances of Marivaux and Crebillon. 

To Mr. West. M Series. Letter iv 



244 COLLINS. 



WILLIAM COLLINS. 1720-1756. 

How sleep the brave who sink to rest, 
By all their country's wishes blessed ! 



in 1746. 



By fairy hands their knell is rung ; 

By forms unseen their dirge is sung ; 

There Honor comes, a pilgrim gray, 

To bless the turf that wraps their clay ; 

And Freedom shall awhile repair, 

To dwell a weeping hermit there. Ibid. 

When Music, heavenly maid, was young, 
While yet in early Greece she sung. 

T/ie Passions. Line 1. 
Filled with fury, rapt, inspired. Ibid. Line 10. 

'T was sad by fits, by starts 't was wild. 

Ibid. Line 28. 
In notes by distance made more sweet. 

Ibid. Line 60. 
In hollow murmurs died away. Ibid. Line 68. 

Music ! sphere-descended maid, 

Friend of pleasure, wisdom's aid ! Ibid. Line 95 

Well may your hearts believe the truths I tell ; 
'T is virtue makes the bliss, where'er we dwell. 

Eclogue 1. Line 5 



COTTON.— HOME. 245 

Too nicely Jonson knew the critic's part ; 
Nature in him was almost lost in Art. 

To Sir Thomas Uanmer on his Edition of Shahspeare. 

In yonder grave a Druid lies. 

Ode on the Death of Thomson. 



NATHANIEL COTTON. 1721-1788. 

If solid happiness we prize, 
"Within our breast this jewel lies ; 

And they are fools who roam : 
The world has nothing to bestow ; 
From our own selves our joys must flow, 
And that dear hut, — our home. 

The Fireside. St. 3. 
Thus hand in hand through life Ave '11 go ; 
Its checkered paths of joy and woe 

With cautious steps we '11 tread. Ibid. St. 13. 



JOHN HOME. 1722-1808. 
In the first days 
Of my distracting grief, I found myself 
As women wish to be who love their lords. 

Douglas. Act i. Sc. 1. 
My name is Norval ; on the Grampian hills 
My father fed his flocks. Ibid. Act ii. Sc. 1, 



246 GOLDSMITH. 

OLIVER GOLDSMITH. 1728-1774. 
THE TRAVELLER. 

Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow. Line 1. 

Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see, 
My heart untravelled fondly turns to thee ; 
Still to my brother turns, with ceaseless pain, 
And drags at each remove a lengthening chain. 

Line 7. 
And learn the luxury of doing good.* Line 22. 

Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view. 

Line 26. 
Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam, 
His first, best country ever is at home. Line 11. 

By sports like these are all their cares beguiled ; 
The sports of children satisfy the child. Line 153. 

But winter lingering chills the lap of May. 

Line 172. 
So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar, 
But bind him to his native mountains more. 

Line 217. 

* For all their luxury was doing good. 

Garth. Claremonl, Line 148. 
He tried the luxury of doing good. 

Ckabbe. Tales of the Hall, Book iii. 



GOLDSMITH. 247 

Alike all ages : dames of ancient days 
Have led their children through the mirthful maze; 
And the gay grandsire, skilled in gestic lore, 
Has frisked beneath the burden of threescore. 

Line 251. 
Embosom'd in the deep where Holland lies. 
Methinks her patient sons before me stand 
Where the broad ocean leans against the land. 

Line 282. 
Pride hi their port, defiance in their eye, 
I see the lords of human kind pass by.* Line 327 

The land of scholars, and the nurse of arms. 

Line 356. 
For just experience tells, in every soil, 
That those that think must govern those that toil. 

Line 372.' 
Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law. I 

Line 386. 
Forced from their homes, a melancholy train. 

Line 409. 
Vain, very vain, my weary search to find 
That 'bliss which only centres in the mind. 

Line 423. 

THE DESERTED VILLAGE. 

The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the shade, 
For talking age and whispering lovers made. 

Line 13. 

* Lord of human kind. — Dkydkn. The Spanish Friar^ 
Act ii. Su. 1. 



248 GOLDSiriTH. 

Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, 
Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. 
Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade. 
A breath can make them as a breath has made ; * 
But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, 
When once destroyed, can never be supplied. 

Line 51 
And his best riches, ignorance of wealth. Line 62. 

How blest is he who crowns, in shades like these, 
A youth of labor with an age of ease. Line 99. 

While resignation gently slopes the way, — 
And, all his prospects brightening to the last, 
His heaven commences ere the world be past. 

Line 100. 
The watch-dog's voice that bayed the whispering 

wind, 
And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind. 

Line 121. 
A man he was to all the country dear, 
And passing rich with forty pounds a year. 

Line 141. 
Wept o'er his wounds, or, tales of sorrow done, 
Shouldered his crutch and showed how fields were 
won. Line 157. 

* C'est un verre qui luit, 
Qu'un souffle peut detruire. et qu'un snuffle a produit. 

De Caux. ( Comparing the world to his hour-glass.) 
Who pants for glory fimls but short repose; 
A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows. 

Tope. Horace, Book ii. Epistle 1 



GOLDSMITH. 249 

Careless their merits or their faults to scan, 

His pity gave ere charity began. Line 161. 

And e'en his failings leaned to virtue's side. 

Line 164. 

Allured to brighter worlds, v and led the way. 

Line 1"0 
Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, 
And fools who came to scoff, remained to pray. 

Line 179. 

And plucked his gown, to share the good man's 

smile. Line 184. 

Eternal sunshine settles on its head. Line 192. 

Full well the busy whisper, circling round, 
Conveyed the dismal tidings when he frowned. 

Line 203. 
In arguing, too, the parson owned his skill, 
For e'en though vanquished, he could argue still ; 
While words of learned length and thundering 

sound 
Amazed the gazing rustics ranged around ; 
And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew 
That one small head could carry all he knew. 

Line 211. 
The whitewashed wall, the nicely sanded floor, 
The varnished clock that clicked behind the door, 
The chest contrived a double debt to pay, 
A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day. 

Line 227 



250 GOLDSMITH. 

To me more dear, congenial to my heart, 
One native charm, than all the gloss of art. 

Line 253 
And e'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy, 
The heart distrusting asks, if this be joy ? 

Line 263. 
Her modest looks the cottage might adorn, 
Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn. 

Line 329. 
Luxury! thou cursed by Heaven's decree. 

Line 385. 
That found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so. 

Line 414. 

RETALIATION. 

Who mixed reason with pleasure, and wisdom with 
mirth. Line 24. 

Who, born for tbe universe, narrowed his mind, 
And to party gave up what was meant for man- 
kind. Line 81. 

Though equal to all things, for all things unfit ; 
Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit. 

Line 37. 
His conduct still right with his argument wrong. 

Line 46 
A flattering painter who made it his care, 
To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are. 

Line 03 



GOLDSMITH. 251 

An abridgment of all that was pleasant in man. 

Line 94. 
As a wit, if not first, in the very first line. 

Line 96. 
He cast off his friends, as a huntsman his pack, 
For he knew, when he pleased, he could whistle 
them back. Line 107. 



VICAR OF WAKEFIELD. 

Man wants but little here below, 
Nor wants that little long.* 

Chap. viii. The Hermit. 
And what is friendship but a name, 

A charm that lulls to sleep, 
A shade that follows wealth or fame, 

And leaves the wretch to weep. Ibid. 

And in that town a dog was found, 

As many dogs there be, 
Both mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound, 

And cur of low degree. 

Chap. xvii. Elegy on a Mad Dog. 
The dog, to gain some private ends, 
Went mad, and bit the man. Hid. 

The man recovered of the bite, 

The dog it was that died. Ibid. 

* Cf. Yorao, page 220. 



252 GOLDSMITH. 

When lovely -woman stoops to folly, 
And finds too late that men betray, 

What charm can soothe her melancholy ? 
What art can wash hei 

The only art her guilt to cover, 

To hide her shame from 'every eye, 
To give repentance to her lover, 
And wring his bosom, is — to die. 

Chapter xxiv. 
Measures, not men, have always been my mark.* 
The Good-natured Man. Act ii. 
A concatenation accordingly. 

She Stoops to Conquer. Act i. Sc. 2. 
Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs. 

Ibid. Act iii. 
But there 's no love lost between us.f 

Ibid. Act iv. 
The king himself has followed her 
"When she has walked before. 

Elegy on Mrs. Mary Dlaize. J 

* Of this stamp is the cant of Xot men, but measures ; sr 
sort of charm by which man}* people get loose from every hon- 
orable engagement. — Burke. Present Discontents. 

j A proverbial expression; Garrick also makes use of it in 
his correspondence, 1759. 

J Written in imitation of Chanson sur lefameux La Palisse, 
which is attributed to Bernard de la Monnoye. 
' On dit que dans ses amours 
II fut caress^ des belles, 
Qui le suivirent toujours, 
Tant qu'il marcha devant elles." 



SMOLLETT. -PERCY. 253 

Such dainties to thein, their health it might hurt ; 

It ? s like sending them ruffles, when wanting a 

shirt.* The Haunch of Venison. 



TOBIAS SMOLLETT. 1721-1771. 
Thy spirit, Independence, let me share ; 
Lord of the lion heart and eagle eye, 
Thy steps I follow with my bosom bare, 

Nor heed the storm that howls along the sky. 

Ode lo Independence. 
Facts are stubborn things. 

Translation of Gil Bias. Booh x. Ch. 1. 

Plain as a pikestaff. Ibid. Book xii. Ch. 8. 



THOMAS PERCY. 1728-1811. 
KELIQTJES OF ENGLISH POETRY. 

He that wold not when he might, 
He shall not when he wolda. 

The Baffled Knight. 

* If your friend is in want, don't carry him to the tavern, 
where you treat yourself as well as him, and entiiil a thirst 
and headache upon him next morning. To treat a poor 
wretch with a bottle of Burgundy and till his snuff-box, is 
like giving a pair of laced ruffles to a man that has never a 
shirt <m his back.— Tom Bkowm. 



254 PERCY. 

"Weep no more, lady, weep no more, 

Thy sorrow is in vain ; 
For violets plucked the sweetest showers 

Will ne'er make grow again. 

The Friar of Orders Gray 
We '11 shine in more substantial honors, 
And to be noble Ave '11 be good.* Winefreda. 

And when with envy time transported, 
Shall think to rob us of our joys, 

You '11 in your girls again be courted, 

And I '11 go wooing in my boys. Ibid. 

My mind to me a kingdom is ; f 

Such perfect joy therein I find, 
As far exceeds all earthly bUss, 

That God and Nature hath assigned. 
Though much I want that most would have, 
Yet still my mind forbids to crave. 

From Byrd's Psalmes, Sonnets, Sfc, 1588. 
He that had neyther been kithe nor kin 
Might have seen a full fay re sight. 

Guy of Gisborne. 
* Howe'er it be, it seems to me, 
'T is only noble to be good. 

Tesnysox. Lruly Clara Vere de Vere. 
t Mens regnum bona possidet. 

Seneca. Tkyesies, Act ii. Line 380. 
My mind to me an empire is 
While grace affordeth health. 

Eobekt Southwell. 15G0-1595- 



P OR TE US. — BE A TTIE. 255 

BEILBY PORTEUS. 1731-1808. 
In sober state, 
Through the sequestered vale of rural life, 
The venerable patriarch guileless held 
The tenor of his way.* Death. Line 108 

One murder made a villain, 
Millions a hero. Princes were privileged 
To kill, and numbers sanctified the crime.f 

Ibid. Zmel5t. 

"War its thousands slays, Peace its ten thousands. 

Ibid. Line 178. 

Thou, 
Whom soft-eyed pity once led down from Heaven 
To bleed for Man, to teach him how to live, 
And oli ! still harder lesson, how to die.+ 

Ibid. Line 31G. 



JAMES BEATTIE. 1735-1803. 
Ah ! who can tell how hard it is to climb 
The steep where Fame's proud temple shines 
afar ? The Ministrel. Book i. St. 1 

* Cf. Ghay, p. 2-42. 
t Cf. Young, p. 223. 

J There taught us how to live; and (oh! too high 
The price for knowledge) taught us how to die. 

Tickkll o?i the Death of Addison 



256 CHURCHILL. — BOOTH. 

At the close of the day, when the hamlet is still, 
And mortals the sweets of forgetfalness prove, 
When nought but the torrent is heard on the hill, 
And nought but the nightingale's song in the 
grove. The Hermit. 

He thought as a sage, though he felt as a man. ibid. 

By the glare of false science betrayed, 
That leads to bewilder, and dazzles to blind. Ibid. 

How hard their lot who neither won nor lost. 

Epigram. The Bucks hud dined. 



CHARLES CHURCHILL. 1741-1764. 
He mouths a sentence, as curs mouth a bone. 

The Rosciad. Line 322. 
But spite of all the criticizing elves, 
Those who would make us feel — must feel them- 
selves.* Line 80 1. 
With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, 
Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought. 

Epistle to William //„,,, -</,. 



BARTON BOOTH. 1681-1738 
True as the needle to the pole, 
Or as the dial to the sun. ; 0hf . 

* Si vis me flere, dolemlum est 
Primum ipsi tibi. — Hokack. Ars Poetica. 102. 



COWPER. 257 

WILLIAM COWPER. 1731-1800. 



United yet divided, twain at once. 

So sit two kings of Brentford on one throne.* 

Book i. The Sofa. 
Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds 
Exhilarate the spirit, and restore 
The tone of languid Nature. Ibid. 

The earth was made so various, that the mind 

Of desultory man, studious of change, 

And pleased with novelty, might be indulged. 

Ibid. 
God made the country, and man made the town.f 

Ibid. 
for a lodge in some vast wilderness, 
Some boundless contiguity of shade, 
Where rumor of oppression and deceit, 
Of unsuccessful or successful war, 
Might never reach me more.J 

Book ii. The Timepiece. 
Mountains interposed 
Make enemies of nations, who had else, 
Like kindred drops, been mingled into one. 

Ibid. 

* Two Kings of Brentford, from Buckingham's play of the 
Rehearsal. 

t Cf. Cowley, page 137. 

| Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of way- 
faring men. — Jeremiah ix. 2. 
17 



258 COWPER. 

I would not have a slave to till my ground, 
To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, 
And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth 
That sinews bought and sold have ever earned. 

Book ii. The Timepiece 
Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs 
Receive our air, that moment they are free ; 
They touch our country and their shackles fall.* 

Ibid. 
England, with all thy faults I love thee still, 
My country.! Ibid. 

Presume to lay their hand upon the ark 

Of her magnificent and awful cause. Ibid. 

To zigzag manuscript, and cheats the eyes 

Of gallery critics by a thousand arts. Ibid. 

Praise enough 
To fill the ambition of a private man, 
That Chatham's language Avas his mother-tongue. 

Ibid. 
There is a pleasure in poetic pains 
Which only poets know. Ibid 

* Servi peregrini, ut primum Gallise fines penetraverint 
eodeni momento liberi sunt. — Bodixus. Liber i. c. 5. 
t Be England what she will, 

With all her faults she is my country still. 

Churchill. The Farewell 



COWPER. 259 

Reading what they never wrote 
Just fifteen minutes, huddle up their work, 
And with a well-bred whisper close the scene. 

Book ii. The Timepiece. 
Whoe'er was edified, themselves were not. Ibid. 

Variety 's the very spice of life, 

That gives it all its flavor. Ibid. 

She that asks 
Her dear five hundred friends. Ibid. 

Domestic Happiness, thou only bliss 
Of Paradise that hast survived the fall ! 

Book iii. The Garden. 
Great contest follows, and much learned dust. 

Ibid. 
From reveries so airy, from the toil 
Of dropping buckets into empty wells, 
And growing old in drawing nothing up.* Ibid. 

How various his employments whom the world 

Calls idle ; and who justly in return 

Esteems that busy world an idler too ! Ibid. 

Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too. 

Ibid. 

* " He has spent all his life in letting down empty buckets 
into empty wells; and he is frittering away his age in trying 
to draw them up again." — Memoirs of Sydney Smith. 



260 COWPER. 

I burn to set the imprisoned wranglers free, 
And give them voice and utterance once again. 

Book iv. Winter Evening 
Now stir the fire-, and close the shutters fast, 
Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, 
And while the bubbling and loud hissing urn 
Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, 
That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each,* 
So let us welcome peaceful evening in. Ibid. 

And Katerfelto, with his hair on end 

At his own wonders, wondering for his bread. 

'T is pleasant, through the loopholes of retreat, 
To peep at such a world ; to see the stir 
Of the great Babel, and not feel the crowd. 

Ibid. 
While fancy, like the finger of a clock, 
Runs the great circuit, and is still at home. Ibid. 

Winter, ruler of the inverted year. Ibid. 

With spots quadrangular of diamond form, 
Ensanguined hearts, clubs typical of strife, 
And spades, the emblem of untimely gra\ es. 

[bid. 
Sidney, warbler of poetic prose. Ibid 

* [Tar-water] is rf a nature so mild and benign and pro- 
portioned to the human constitution, as to warm without heat- 
ing, to cheer but not inebriate. — Bishop Berkeley. Siris, 
par. 217. 



COWPER. 261 

The Frenchman's darling.* 

Book iv. Winter Evening. 
But war's a game which, were their subjects wise, 
Kings would not play at. 

Book v. Winter Morning Walk. 
The beggarly last doit. Ibid. 

With filial confidence inspired, 
Can lift to Heaven an unpresumptuous eye, 
And smiling say, " My Father made them all ! " 

Ibid. 
As dreadful as the Manichean god, 
Adored through fear, strong only to destroy. Ibid. 

He is the freeman whom the truth makes free. 

Ibid. 
There is in souls a sympathy with sounds ; 
And as the mind is pitched, the ear is pleased 
With melting airs, or martial, brisk, or grave ; 
Some chord in unison with what we hear 
Is touched within us, and the heart replies. 
How soft the music of those village bells, 
Falling at intervals upon the ear 
In cadence sweet. 

Book vi. Winter Walk at Noon. 

Here the heart 
May give a useful lesson to the head, 
And Learning wiser grow without his books. 

Ibid. 

* 'T was Cowper who gave this now common name to the 
Mignonette. 



262 COWPER. 

Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much ; 
Wisdom is humble that he knows no more. 

Book vi. Winter Walk at Noon. 
Some to the fascination of a name 
Surrender judgment hoodwinked. Ibid. 

I would not enter on my list of friends 

(Though graced with polished manners and fine 

sense, 
Yet wanting sensibility) the man 
Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. ibid. 

An honest man, close buttoned to the chin, 
Broadcloth without, and a warm heart within. 

Epistle to Joseph Hill. 
Shine by the side of every path we tread 
With such a lustre, he that runs may read.* 

Tirocinium. 
An idler is a watch that wants both hands ; 
As useless if it goes as when it stands. Retirement. 

Built God a church, and laughed His word to 
scorn. ibid. 

How sweet, how passing sweet is solitude ! 

But grant me still a friend in my retreat, 

Whom I may whisper, Solitude is sweet. Ibid. 

A fool must now and then be right, by chance. 

Conversation 
* Cf. Habakkuk ii. 2. 



COWPKR. 263 

The solemn fop significant and budge ; 
A fool with judges, among fools a judge.* 

Conversation 
His wit invites you by his looks to come, 
But when you knock it never is at kome.f Ibid. 

Our wasted oil unprofitably burns, 

Like hidden lamps in old sepulchral urns. Ibid. 

Is base in kind, and born to be a slave. 

Table Talk- 
No. Freedom has a thousand charms to show, 
That slaves, howe'er contented, never know. 

Ibid. 
Just knows, and knows no more, her Bible true, 
A truth the brilliant Frenchman never knew. 

Truth. 

* If he be not fellow with the best king, thou shalt find the 
best king of good fellows. King Henrij V. Act v. Sc. 2. 

This man I thought had been a lord among wits, but I find 
he is only a wit among lords. Samuel Johnson. 

A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits. 

Pope. Duncind. Book iv. Line 92. 

Although too much of a soldier among sovereign*, no one 
could claim with better, right to be a sovereign among sol- 
diers. Waltek Scott. Life of Napoleon. 

He (Steele) was a rake among scholars, and a scholar 
among rakes. 

Macaulay. Review of Aikin's Life of Addison. 

Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a 
man of letters amongst men of the world. 

Macaulay. Life and Writings of Sir William Temple. 

+ Cf. Pope, page 209. 



264 COWPER. 

How much a dunce, that has been sent to roam, 
Excels a dunce that has been kept at home. 

The Progress of Erroi 
Toll for the brave ! 

The brave that are no more ! 
All sunk beneath the wave, 
Fast by their native shore. 

On the Loss of the Royal George 

Misses ! the tale that I relate 
This lesson seems to carry, 
Choose not alone a proper mate 
But proper time to marry. 

Pairing Time Anticipated. 
A kick, that scarce would move a horse, 

May kill a sound divine. The Yearly Distress. 

That though on pleasure she was bent, 
She had a frugal mind. 

History of John Gilpin. 

A hat not much the worse for wear. Ibid. 

Now let us sing, long live the King, 

And Gilpin long live he ; 
And when he next doth ride abroad 

May I be there to see. ibid. 

that those lips had language ! Life has passed 
"With me but roughly since I heard thee last. 

On the Receipt of my Mother's Picture. 

The son of parents passed into the skies. ibid 



COWPER. 265 

What peaceful hours I once enjoyed ! 

How sweet their memory still ! 
But, they have left an aching void, 

The world can never fill. Walking with God. 

God moves in a mysterious way, 

His wonders to perform : 
He plants his footsteps in the sea, 
And rides upon the storm. 

Light Shining out of Darkness. 
I am monarch of all I survey, 
My right there is none to dispute. 

Verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk. 

Solitude ! where are the charms 

That sages have seen in thy face ? Ibid. 

But the sound of the church-going bell 
Those valleys and rocks never heard, 

Never sighed at the sound of a knell, 

Or smiled when a sabbath appeared. Ibid 

How fleet is a glance of the mind ! 

Compared with the speed of its flight, 
The tempest itself lags behind, 

And the swift-winged arrows of light. Ibid. 

There goes the parson, oh illustrious spark ! 
And there, scarce less illustrious, goes the clerk ! 
On observing some Names of little note. 



266 TBRALE. 

'T is Providence alone secures 

In every change both mine and yours. 

A Fable. (Moral.) 
The man that hails you Tom or Jack, 
And proves by thumps upon your back 

His sense of your great merit,* 
Is such a friend that one had need 
Be very much his friend indeed 

To pardon or to bear it. Friendship. 

Beware of desperate steps. The darkest day, 
Live till to-morrow, will have passed away. 

The Needless Alarm. (Moral.) 
He sees that this great roundabout, 
The world, with all its motley rout, 

Church, army, physic, law, 
Its customs and its businesses, 
Is no concern at all of his, 

And says — what says he ? — Caw. 

The Jackdaw. 
For 't is a truth well known to most, 
That whatsoever thing is lost, 
We seek it, ere it come to light, 
In every cranny but the right. The Retired Cat 



MRS. THRALE. 1740-1822. 
The tree of deepest root is found 
Least willing still to quit the ground ; 
'T was therefore said, by ancient sages, 

* Altered to, " How he esteems your merit." 



GREYILLE. — MICKLE. - WOLCOT. 267 

That love of life increased with years 
So much, that in our latter stages, 
When pains grow sharp, and sickness rages, 

The greatest love of life appears. 

Three Warnings. 

MRS. GREVILLE* 17 17—. 

Nor peace nor ease the heart can know, 

Which, like the needle true, 
Turns at the touch of joy or woe, 
But, turning, trembles too. 

A Prayer for Indifference. 



W. J. MICKLE. 1734-1788. 
His very foot has music in 't 
As he comes up the stairs. 

The Mariner's Wife. 



- DR. WOLCOT. 1738-1819. 
Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt, 
And every grin, so merry, draws one out. 

Ex postulate ry Odes. Ode xv. 
A fellow in a market town, 
Most musical, cried razors up and down. 

Farewell Odes. Ode iii. 

* The pretty Fanny Macartney. — "Walpole's Memoirs 



268 LANGH ORNE. - BARB A ULD. 

JOHN LANGHORNE. 1735-1779. 

Cold on Canadian hills or Minden's plain, 
Perhaps that parent mourned her soldier slain ; 
Bent o'er her babe, her eye dissolved in dew ; 
The big drops, mingling with the milk he drew, 
Gave the sad presage of his future years, 
The child of misery, baptized in tears.* 

The Country Justice. Part 



MRS. BARBAULD. 1743-1825. 
Man is the nobler growth our realms supply, 
And souls are ripened in our northern sky. 

The Invitation. 
This dead of midnight is the noon of thought 
And wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars.f 

A Summer's Evening Meditation. 

* " This allusion to the dead soldier, and his widow, on the 
field of battle, was made the subject of a print by Bunbury, 
under which were engraved the pathetic lines of Langhorne. 
Sir Walter Scott has mentioned, that the only time he saw- 
Burns, this picture was in the room. Burns shed tears over 
it; and Scott, then a lad of fifteen, was the only person 
present who could tell him where the lines were to be found." 

t Often ascribed to Young. 



MORE. — J ONES. 2 69 

IIANNAH MORE. 1745-1833. 
To those who know thee not, no words can paint ! 
And those who know thee, know all words are 
faint ! Sensibility. 

In men this blunder still you find, 
All think their little set mankind. 

The Bos Bleu. 
Small habits well pursued betimes, 
May reach the dignity of crimes. ibid. 



SIR WILLIAM JONES. 1746-1794. 
Go boldly forth, my simple lay, 
Whose accents flow with artless ease, 
Like orient pearls at random strung. 

A Persian Song of Hafiz. 
On parent knees, a naked new-born child 
Weeping thou sat'st while all around thee smiled ; 
So live, that sinking in thy last long sleep, 
Calm thou mayst smile, w r hile all around thee 

weep. From the Persian, 

What constitutes a State ? Ode in Imitation ofAkteus. 

Men who their duties know, 
But know their rights, and knowing, dare maintain. 

Ibid. 



270 M ORRIS. — TR UMB ULL. 

And sovereign law, that state's collected will, 

O'er thrones and globes elate, 
Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill. ibid, 

Seven hours to law, to soothing slumber seven, 
Ten to the world allot, and all to heaven.* ibid. 



CAPTAIN CHARLES MORRIS. 1832. 

Solid men of Boston, make no long orations ; 
Solid men of Boston, drink no deep potations. 

Billy Pitt and the Farmer. 



JOHN TRUMBULL. 1750-1831. 
But optics sharp it needs, I ween, 
To see what is not to be seen. 

McFingal. Canto i. Line 67. 
But as some muskets so contrive it, 
As oft to miss the mark they drive at, 
And though well aimed at duck or plover, 
Bear wide, and kick their owners over. 

Ibid. Canto i. Line 93. 
No man e'er felt the halter draw, 
With good opinion of the law. 

Ibid. Canto iii. Line 489 

* Six hours in sleep, in law's grave study six, 
Four spend in prayer, the rest on nature fix. 

Translation of Unes quoted by Sir Edward Coke. 



SHERIDAN. 271 

RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN. 1751-1816. 
A progeny of learning. The Rivals. Act i. Sc. 2, 

You are not like Cerberus, three gentlemen at 
once, are you ? Ibid. Act iv. Sc. 2 

The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it 
stands ; we should only spoil it by trying to ex- 
plain it. Ibid. Act iv. Sc. 3. 

As headstrong as an allegory on the banks of 
the Nile. Ibid. Act v. Sc. 3 

My valor is certainly going ! it is sneaking off ! 
I feel it oozing out, as it were, at the palm of my 
hands. Ibid, Act v. Sc. 3. 

I own the soft impeachment. Ibid. Act v. Sc. 3. 

Steal ! to be sure they may, and, egad serve 
your best thoughts as gypsies do stolen children, 
disfigure them to make 'em pass for their own.* 

The Critic. Act i. Sc. 1. 
No scandal about Queen Elizabeth I hope. 

Ibid. Act ii. Sc. 1 . 

* Still pilfers wretched plans, and makes them worse; 
Like gypsies, lest the stolen brat be known, 
Defacing first, then claiming for his own. 

Churchill. The Apology. Line 233. 



272 SHERIDAN. 

Where they do agree on the stage, their una- 
nimity is -wonderful. The Critic. Act ii. Sc. 2. 

You shall see a beautiful quarto page, where 
a neat rivulet of text shall meander through a 
meadow of margin. 

School for Scandal. Act i. Sc. 1. 
I leave my character behind me. Ibid. Act ii. Sc. 2. 

Here 's to the maiden of bashful fifteen ; 

Here 's to the widow of fifty ; 
Here 's to the flaunting, extravagant quean, 
And here 's to the housewife that 's thrifty. 
Let the toast pass ; 
Drink to the lass ; 
I '11 warrant she '11 prove an excuse for the glass. 
Ibid. Act iii. Sc. 3. 
An unforgiving eye, and a danmed disinherit- 
ing countenance. Ibid. Act iv. Sc. 1. 

I ne'er could any lustre see 

In eyes that would not look on me ; 

I ne'er saw nectar on a lip 

But where my own did hope to sip. 

The Duenna. Act i. Sc. 2. 

Conscience has no more to do with gallantly, 

than it has with politics. Ibid. Act ii. Sc 4. 

The Right Honorable gentleman is indebted to 



CRABBE. — MERRICK. 273 

his memory for his jests and to his imagination 
for his facts.* Speech in Reply to Mr. DundasA 

You write with ease to show your breeding, 
But easy writing 's curst hard reading. 

Clio's Protest. \ 



GEOEGE CRABBE. 1754-1832. 

Oil ! rather give me commentators plain, 
Who with no deep researches vex the brain, 
Who from the dark and doubtful love to run, 
And hold their glimmering taper to the sun. 

'Hie Parish Register. Part I 
In this fool's paradise he drank delight. § 

27(e Borough. Letter XII. Players. 
Books cannot always please, however good ; 
Minds are not ever craving for their food. 

Ibid. Letter XXIV. Schools. 
In idle wishes fools supinely stay ; 
Be there a will, — and wisdom finds a way. 

The Birth of Flattery. 



JAMES MERRICK. 1720-1766. 
Not what we wish, but what we want. Hymn. 

* On peut dire que son esprit brille aux depens do sa me"- 
moire. — Le Sage. Gil Bias. Livre iii. Ch. xi. 
t From Sheridaniana. 

\ Mooke's Life of Sheridan. Vol. i. p. 155. 
$ Cf. Milton. Paradise Lost. Book iii. Line 496. 
18 



,: 



274 



ROBERT BURNS. 1759-1796. 
Where sits our sulky, sullen dame, 
Gathering her brows like gathering storm, 
Nursing her wrath to keep it warm. 

Tarn O'Shanter 
His ancient, trusty, drouthy crony ; 
Tarn lo'ed him like a vera brither — 
They had been fou for weeks thegither. Ibid 

Kings may be blest, but Tarn was glorious, 
O'er a' the ills o' life victorious. Ibid 

But pleasures are like poppies spread, 

You seize the flower, its bloom is shed ; 

Or like the snow-fall in the river, 

A moment white, then melts for ever. fbitl 

That hour, o' night's black arch the keystane. 

Ibid 
Inspiring bold John Barleycorn, 
What dangers thou canst make us scorn. Ibid. 

As Tammie gloured, amazed and curious, 

The mirth and fun grew fast and furious. Hid. 

The landlord's laugh was ready chorus. Ibid. 

Affliction's sons are brothers in distress ; 

A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bli^=. 

A Wader's XiijM. 



buexs. 275 

Then gently scan your brother man 

Still gentler, sister woman ; 
Though they may gang a kennin' wrang, 

To step aside is human. 

Address to the Unco Guid. 
"What 's done we partly may compute, 

But know not what 's resisted. Ibid. 

If there 's a hole in a' your coats, 

I rede you tent it ; 
A chiel 's amang you taking notes, 

And, faith, he '11 prent it. 
On Captain Grose's Peregrinations through Scotland, 
O wad some power the giftie gie us, 
To see oursels as others see us ! 
It wad frae monie a blunder free us, 

And foolish notion. To a Louse. 

The best laid schemes o' mice and men 

Gang aft a-gley ; 
And leave us naught but grief and pain 

For promised joy. 

To a Mouse,, 

Perhaps it may turn out a sang, 
Peihaps turn out a sermon. 

Epistle to a Young Friend. 
The fear o' hell 's a hangman's whip 

To haud the wretch in order ; 
But where ye feel your honor grip, 

Let that aye be your border. Ibid 



276 BUBNB. 

An Atheist's laugh 's a poor exchange 

For Deity offended ! Epistle to a Young Friend. 

And may you better reck the rede, 

Than ever did th' adviser ! Jhid. 

In durance vile here must I wake and weep, 
And all my frowzy couch in sorrow steep.* 

Epistle from Esopus to Maria. 
O Life ! how pleasant in thy morning, 
Young Fancy's rays the hills adorning ! 
Cold — pausing Caution's lesson scorning, 

We frisk away, 
Like schoolboys at th' expected warning, 
To joy and play. 

Epistle to James Smith. 
His locked, lettered, braw brass collar 
Shewed him the gentleman and scholar. 

The Twa Dogs. 
life ! thou art a galling load, 
Along a rough, a weary road, 

To wretches such as I ! Despondency. 

Should auld acquaintance be forgot, 
And never brought to min' ? 

* Durance vile. — W. Kenrick (1766). 

Falstnps Wedding. Act i. So. 2. 
It will not be amiss to take a view of the effects of thi-- 
royal servitude and vile durance, which was so deplored irj 
the reign of the last monarch. — Bukice. 

On the Present Discontent 



BURNS. 277 

Should auld acquaintance be forgot, 

- And days o' lang syne ? Auld Lang Syne. 

Misled by fancy's meteor-ray, 

By passion driven ; 
But yet the light that led astray 

Was light from heaven. The Vision. 

And, like a passing thought, she fled 

In light away. Rid. 

Now 's the day, and now 's the hour, 

See the front o' battle lour. BannoJcbum. 

Liberty 's in every blow ! 

Let us do or die. Ibid. 

Auld Mature swears, the lovely dears 
Her noblest work she classes, ; 
Her 'prentice han' she tried on man, 
And then she made the lasses, ! * 

Green grow the Rashes. 
Man's inhumanity to man 
Makes countless thousands mourn. 

Man ivas made to Mourn 
Some wee short hour ayont the twal. 

Death and Dr. Hornh.ook. 

* Man -was made when Nature was 
But an apprentice, but woman when she 
Was a skilful mistress of her art. 

Cupid's Whirligig. 1607. 



278 BURNS. 

The rank is but the guinea's stamp, • 
The man 's the gowd for a' that.* 

Is therefor Honest Poverty 

A prince can make a belted knight, 
A marquis, duke, and a' that ; 

But an honest man 's aboon his might, 

Guid faith, he maunna fa' that. Ibid. 

I But to see her was to love her, 
/ Love but her, and love forever. 

Song. Ae Fopd Kiss. 
Had we never loved sae kindly, 
Had we never loved sae blindly, 
Never met or never parted, 
We had ne'er been broken-hearted. 

Ibid. 

O, my love 's like a red, red rose, 
That 's newly sprung in June, 
O, my love 's like the melodie, 
That 's sweetly played hi tune. 

Song. A Red, Red Rose. 
Gars auld claes look amaist as weel 's the new. 

The Cotter's Saturday Night. 

Beneath the milk-white thorn that scents the even- 
ing gale. ibid. 

He wales a portion with judicious care ; 

And " Let us worship God S " he says, with solemn 
air. Ibid 

* I weigh the man, not his title ; 't is not the king's stamp 
can make the metal better. — "Wycherley. 

The Plaindealer. Act i. Sc. 1. 



COLMAN. —LO GAN. 279 

GEORGE COLMAN, THE YOUNGER. 

1762-1836. 

On their own merits modest men are dumb. 

Broad Grins. Epilogue to the Heir at Law, 
And what 's impossible can't be, 
And never, never comes to pass. 

The Maid of the Moor. 
Three stories high, long, dull, and old, 
As great lord's stories often are. Ibid. 

But when ill indeed, 
E'en dismissing the doctor don't always succeed. 

Lodgings for Single Gentlemen. 

When taken, 
To be well shaken. The Newcastle Apothecary. 



Thank you, good sir, I owe you one. 

The Poor Gentleman. Act i. Sc. 2, 

Miss Bailey, 
Unfortunate Miss Bailey ! 

Love Laughs at Locksmiths. Act ii. Song. 



JOHN LOGAN. 1748-1788. 
Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, 

No winter in thy year. To tlie Cuckoo 



280 DICKINSON. — TOWNLET. — MALLETT. 



JOHN DICKINSON. 1732-1808. 
Then join in hand, brave Americans all ; 
By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall. 

The Liberty Song. (1708) 



THOMAS MOSS. 1808. 

Pity the sorrows of a poor old man, 

Whose trembling limbs have borne him to your 
door, 
Whose days are dwindled to the shortest span ; 
Oh ! give relief, and Heaven will bless your 
Store. The Beggar. 



JAMES TOWNLEY. 1778. 

Kitty. Shikspur ? Shikspur ? Who wrote it ? 
No, I never read Shikspur. 

Lady Bab. Then you have an immense pleas- 
ure to come. High Life below Stairs. Act ii. Sc. 1. 

From humble Port to imperial Tokay. . Ibid 



DAVID MALLETT. 1700-1765. 
While tumbling down the turbid stre*on, 
Lord love us, how we apples swim. Tyburn 



BR 7DGES. — M OR TON. — CANNING. 281 



SIR SAMUEL EGERTON BRYDGES. 1763-1837. 

The glory dies not, and the grief is past.* 

Sonnet on the Death of Sir Walter Scott 



THOMAS MORTON. 1766-1838. 

What will Mrs. Grundy say? 

Speed the Plough. Act i. Sc. 1. 
Push on — keep moving. 

A Cure for the Heartache. Act ii. Sc. 1. 

Approbation from Sir Hubert Stanley is praise 

indeed. Ibid. Act v. Sc. 2. 



GEORGE CANNING. 1770-1827. 

Story ! God bless you, I have none to tell, sir ! 
The Friend of Humanity and the Needy Knife-Grinder*. 
From the Poetry of the Anti-jacobin. 

I give thee sixpence ! I will see thee d d first. 

Ibid. 
But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can 

send, 
Save, save, oh, save me from the candid friend ! 
The New Morality. From the Poetry of the Anti-jacobin. 

* But of the deed the glory shall remain. — Grimoalde. 
{Circa 1520-1563). Musonius the Philosopheigs Saying. 



282 UOPKJNSON. — EVERETT. 

So down thy hill, romantic Ashhourne, glides 
The Derby dilly carrying three insides.* 

Tlie Loves of the Triangles. Line 178 
From the Poetry of the Anti-jacobin. 



JOSEPH HOPKINSON. 1770-1S42. 

Hail, Columbia ! happy land ! 
Hail, ye heroes ! heaven-born band ! 
Who fought and died in freedom's cause. 

Hail Columbia. 



DAVID EVERETT. 1769-1813. 

You 'd scarce expect one of my age 
To speak in public on the stage ; 
And if 1 chance to fall below 
Demosthenes or Cicero, 
Don't view me with a critic's eye, 
But pass my imperfections by. 
Large streams from little fountains flow, 
Tall oaks from little acorns grow. 

Liht-s written for a School Declamation. 

* These lines are ascribed to John Hookam Frere in Cham- 
?jrf/.< t',jrh'pr : -i; t of Enr/lish Literature, vol. 2, p. 325. 



WORDS WOR 777. 283 

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. 1770-1850. 
And homeless near a thousand homes I stood, 
And near a thousand tables pined and wanted 
food. Guilt and Sorrow. Stanza 41 

The Child is father of the Man * 

My Heart Leaps Up 
The sweetest thing that ever grew 
Beside a human door. Lucy Gray. Stanza 2. 

A simple Child, 
That lightly draws its breath, 
And feels its life in every limb, 
"What should it know of death ? We are Seven. 

Drink, pretty creature, drink. The Pet Lamb. 

Until a man might travel twelve stout miles, 
Or reap an acre of his neighbor's corn. 

Tlie Brothers. 
Sweet childish days, that were as long 
As twenty days are now. To a Butterfly, 

A noticeable man, with large gray eyes. 

Stanzas written in Thomson 
And he is oft the wisest man, 
WllO is not wise at all. The Oak and the Broom. 

* The childhood shows the man 

As morning shows the day. — Milton. 

Paradise Regained. Book iv. Line 220. 



284 WORDSWORTH. 

She dwelt among the untrodden ways 

Beside the springs of Dove, 
A maid whom there were none to praise, 

And very few to love. Luci 

A violet by a mossy stone 

Half hidden from the eye ! 
Fair as a star, when only one 

Is shining in the sky. Ibid, 

She lived unknown, and few could know 

When Lucy ceased to be ; 
But she is in her grave, and oh ! 

The difference to me ! ibid. 

Minds that have nothing to confer 
Find little to perceive. 

Poems founded on the Affections, xvi. 
The bane of all that dread the devil. 

The Idiot Boy. 
Something between a hinderance and a help. 

Michael. 
But He is risen, a later star of dawn. 

A Morning Exercise. 
Bright gem instinct with music, vocal spark. 

Ibid 
Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain, 
That has been, and may be again. 

The Solitary Reaper 
The music in my heart I bore, 
Long after it was heard no more. ibid. 



WORDSWORTH. 285 

Because the good old rule 
Sufficeth them, the simple plan, 
That they should take who have the power, 

And they should keep who can. 

Rob Roy's Grave. Stanza 9. 
The swan on still St. Mary's Lake 
Float double, swan and shadow ! Yarrow Unvisited. 

Men are we, and must grieve when even the 

Shade 
Of that which once was great is passed away. 
Sonnets to National Independence and Liberty. Part i. vi. 
Thou hast left behind 
Powers that will work for thee, — air, earth, and 

skies ; 
There 's not a breathing of the common wind, 
That will forget thee ; thou hast great allies ; 
Thy friends are exultations, agonies, 
And love, and man's unconquerable mind. 

Ibid. Part i. viii. 
Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart. 

Ibid. Part i. xiv. 
So didst thou travel on life's common way, 
In cheerful godliness. Ibid. 

We must be free or die, who speak the tongue 
That Shakspeare spake ; the faith and morals hold 
Which Milton held. Part i. xvi 

One of those heavenly days that cannot die. 

Nutting, 



286 WORDSWORTH. 

But all things else about her drawn 
From May time and the cheerful Dawn. 

She was a Phantom of Delight 
A Creature not too bright or good 
For human nature's daily food ; 
For transient sorrows, simple wiles, 
Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles. Ibid. 

A perfect woman, nobly planned, 

To warn, to comfort, and command. Ibid. 

"We meet thee, like a pleasant thought, 
"When such are wanted. To the 



Thou unassuming Commonplace 

Of Nature. To the same Flower. 

That inward eye 
Which is the bliss of solitude. I Wandered Lonely. 

A Youth to whom was given 
So much of earth, so much of heaven. Ruth. 

I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous Boy, 
The sleepless soul that perished in his pride ; 
Of him who walked in glory and in joy, 
Following his plough, along the mountain-side. 

Resolution and Independence. Stanza 7 
" A jolly place," said he, " in times of old ! 
But something ails it now : the spot is cursed." 

Hart Leap Well. Part ii 



WORDSWORTH. 287 

Hunt half a day for a forgotten dream. 

Bart Leap Well. Part ii. 
Never to blend our pleasure or our pride, 
With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels, ibid. 

Sensations sweet, 
Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart. 

Tintern Abbey. 
That best portion of a good man's life, 
His little, nameless, unremembered acts 
Of kindness and of love. Ibid. 

That blessed mood, 
In which the burden of the mystery, 
In which the heavy and the weary weight 
Of all this unintelligible world, 
Is lightened. ibid. 

The fretful stir 
Unprofitable, and the fever of the world, 
Have hung upon the beatings of my heart, ibid 

The sounding cataract 
Haunted me like a passion ; the tall rock, 
The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, 
Their colors and their forms, were then to me 
An appetite ; a feeling and a love, 
That had no need of a remoter charm 
By thoughts supplied, nor any interest 
Unborrowed from the eye. ibid 



288 WORDSWORTH. 

But hearing oftentimes 
The still, sad music of humanity. Tintern Abbey. 

Knowing that Nature never did betray 

The heart that loved her. ibid. 

Nor greetings where no kindness is. ibid. 

Like — but oh ! how different. 

Poems of the Imagination, xxix. 
T)-pe of the wise who soar, but never roam ; 
True to the kindred points of Heaven and Home. 
To a Sky Lark. xxx. 
Show us how divine a thhig 
A Woman may be made. 

To a Young Lady, xxxvi. 
But an old age serene and bright 
And lovely as a Lapland night, 
Shall lead thee to thy grave. ibid. 

There 's something in a flying horse, 
There 's something hi a huge balloon. 

Peter Bell. Prologue. Stanza 1. 
The common growth of Mother Earth 
S unices me, — her tears, her mirth, 
Her humblest mirth and tears. Ibid. Stanza 27 

A primrose by a river's brim 

A yellow primrose was to him. 

And it was nothing more. p ar t i. Stanza 12. 



WORDSWORTH. 289 

The soft blue sky did never melt 

Into his heart ; he never felt 

The witchery of the soft blue sky ! 

Part i. Stanza 15. 
As if the man had fixed his face, 
In many a solitary place, 
Against the wind and open sky ! Part i. Stanza 26. 

The holy time is quiet as a Nun 
Breathless with adoration. 

Miscellaneous Sonnets. Part i. xxx. 
The world is too much with us ; late and soon 
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers. 

Part i. xxxiii. 
Great God ! I 'd rather be 
A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn ; 
So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, 
Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn ; 
Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea, 
Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn. Ibid. 

'T is hers to pluck the amaranthine flower 
Of Faith, and round the Sufferer's temples bind 
Wreaths that endure affliction's heaviest shower, 
And do not shrink from sorrow's keenest wind. 

Part i. xxxv. 
Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep ! 
The river glideth at his own sweet will ; 
Dear God ! the very houses seem asleep ; 
And all that mighty heart is lying still ! 

19 Part ii. xxxvi. 



290 WORDSWORTH. 

The feather, -whence the pen 
Was shaped that traced the lives of these good 

men, 
Dropped from an Angel's wing.* 

Ecclesiastical Sonnets. Part iii. Walton's Lives. 

Meek Walton's heavenly memory. Ibid. 

Up ! np ! my Friend, and quit your hooks. 

Or surely you '11 grow double : 

Up ! up ! my Friend, and clear your looks ; 

Why all this toil and trouhle ? The Tables Turned. 



One impulse from a vernal wood 
May teach you more of man, 
Of moral evil and of good, 
Than all the sajres can. 



Ibid. 



A remnant of uneasy light. 

77/" Matron of Jedborovgh, 
Meek Nature's evening comment on the shows, 
That for oblivion take their daily birth 
From all the faming vanities of Earth. 

Sky Prospect. From the Plains of France. 

* The pen -wherewith thou dost so heavenly sing 
Made of a quill from an angel's wing. 

Hesby Constable. Sonnit 
Whose noble praise 
Deserves a quill pluckt from an angel's wing. 

Dorothy Beery. Sonnet 



WORDSWORTH. 291 

One that would peep and botanize 
Upon his mother's grave. 

A Poet's Epitaph. Stanza 5. 
He murmurs near the running brooks 
A music sweeter than their own. ibid. Stanza 10. 

The harvest of a quiet eye, 

That broods and sleeps on his own heart. 

Ibid. Stanza 13. 
Maidens withering on the stalk. 

Personal Talk. Stanza 1. 

Dreams, books, are each a world ; and books we 

know, 
Are a substantial world, both pure and good ; 
Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and 

blood, 
Our pastime and our happiness will grow. 

Ibid. Stanza 3. 
The gentle Lady married to the Moor, 
And heavenly Una with her milk-white Lamb. 

Ibid. Stanza 3 
Blessings be with them, and eternal praise, 
Who gave us nobler loves, and nobler cares. 
The Poets, who on earth have made us heirs 
Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays ! 

Ibid. Stanza 4 

To be a Prodigal's Favorite, — then, worse truth. 
A Miser's Pensioner, — behold our lot ! 

The Small Celandine. From Poems referring to Old Age 



292 WORDSWORTH. 

Often have I sighed to measure 
By myself a lonely pleasure, 
Sighed to think I read a hook, 
Only read, perhaps, by me. 

To the Small Celandine. From Poems of the Fancy 
The light that never was, on sea or land, 
The consecration, and the Poet's dream. 

Elegiac Stanzas suggested by a Picture of Peele Castk 
in a Storm. Stanza 4. 

But hushed be every thought that springs 
From out the bitterness of things. 

Epitaphs and Elegiac Pieces, xiii. 
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. 

Intimations of Immortality. Stanza 5. 
But trailing clouds of glory, do we come 

From God, who is our home : 
Heaven lies about us in our infancy ! ibid. 

To me the meanest flower that blows can give 
Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears. 

Stanza 11. 

THE EXCURSION. 

The. vision and the faculty divine. Book i. 

The imperfect offices of prayer and praise. Ibid. 

The good die first, 
And they whose hearts are dry as summer dust 
Burn to the socket. ibid. 



WORDSWORTH. 293 

This dull product of a scoffer's pen. Book ii 

"With battlements, that on their restless fronts 
Bore stars. ibid 

Wrongs unredressed, or insults unavenged. 

Book Hi 
Monastic brotherhood, upon rock aerial. ibid 

The intellectual power through words and things 
Went sounding on, a dim and perilous way ! * 

Ibid 
Society became my glittering bride, 
And airy hopes my children. ibid 

There is a luxury in self-dispraise ; 

And inward self-disparagement affords 

To meditative spleen a grateful feast. Book iv. 

I have seen 
A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract 
Of inland ground, applying to his ear 
The convolutions of a smooth-lipped shell ; 
To which, in silence hushed, his very soul 
Listened intensely ; and his countenance soon 
Brightened with joy ; for from within were heard 
Murmuring?, whereby the monitor expressed 
Mysterious union with its native sea. ibid. 

* Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on, 
Through words and things, a dim and perilous way. 

The Borderers. Act iv 



294 WORDSWORTH. 

One in whom persuasion and belief 
Had ripened into faith, and faith become 
A passionate intuition. j^ 

Spires whose " silent finger points to heaven." * 

Boole vi. 
Wisdom married to immortal verse.f Ibid. 

A man he seems of cheerful yesterdays 

And confident to-morrows. Book vii. 

The primal duties shine aloft, like stars ; 
The charities, that soothe, and heal, and bless, 
Are scattered at the feet of Man, like flowers. 

Book ix. 

By happy chance we saw 
A twofold image ; on a grassy bank 
A snow-white ram, and in the crystal flood 
Another and the same.j Ibid. 

for a single hour of that Dundee 
Who on that day the word of onset gave. 

Sonnet. In the Pass of Kill Icn inly 

* An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches 
.n flat countries with spire-steeples, which, as they cannot be 
referred to any other object, point as with silent finger to the 
sky and stars. — Coleridge. The Friend, No. 14. 
f Lap me in soft Lydian airs, 
Married to immortal verse. 

Milton. VAUegro 
\ Mounts from her funeral pyre on wings of flame 
And soars and shines another and the same. 

Daewls. Thic Botanic Garden 



WORDSWORTH. 295 

As thou these ashes, little Brook ! wilt bear 
Into the Avon, Avon to the tide 
Of Severn, Severn to the narrow seas, 
Into main ocean they, this deed accursed 
An emblem yields to friends and enemies, 
How the bold Teacher's doctrine, sanctified 
By truth, shall spread, throughout the world dis- 
persed.* To Wkkliffe. 

Another morn 
Risen on mid-noon.f 

The Prelude. Book vi. 

* In obedience to the order of the Council of Constance, 
(1415.) the remains of Wickliffe were exhumed and burnt to 
ashes, and these cast into the Swift, a neighboring brook run- 
ning hard by, and " thus this brook hath conveyed his ashes 
into Avon; Avon into Severn, Severn into the narrow seas, 
thej- into the main ocean. And thus the ashes of Wickliife 
are the emblem of his doctrine, which now is dispersed all 
the world over." — Fuller. Clmrch History. Sec ii. B. 4, 
Par. 53. 

Fox says: "What Heraclitus would not laugh, or what 

Democritus would not weep For though they digged 

up his body, burnt his bones, and drowned his ashes, yet the 
word of God and truth of his doctrine, with the fruit and 
success thereof, they could not burn." Book of Afartyrs. 

" Some prophet of that day said, 

' The Avon to the Severn runs, 
The Severn to the sea ; 
And Wickliffe's dust shall spread abroad, 
Wide as the waters be.' " 

From Address before the " Sons of Nero Hampshire,''' 1 by Daniel 
Webster, 1849. 

These lines are similarly quoted by the Rev. John Cum- 
ming in the Voices of the Dead. 

t Verbatim from Paradise Lost, Book v. Line 310. 



Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, 
But to be young was very Heaven ! 

France. The Prelude. 

And listens like a three year's child. 

Lines added to the Ancient Mariner * 



ROBERT SOUTHEY. 1774-1843. 
How beautiful is night ! 
A dewy freshness fills the silent air ; 
No mist obscures, nor cloud, nor speck, nor stain, 
Breaks the serene of heaven : 
In full-orbed glory, yonder moon divine 
Rolls through the dark-blue depths. 
Beneath her steady ray 
The desert-circle spreads, 
Like the round ocean, girdled with the sky. 

How beatttiful is night ! Thalaba. 

They sin who tell us love can die. 
With life all other passions fly, 
All others are but vanity. 

The Curse of Kehama. Canto x. 
Thou hast been called, sleep ! the friend of woe ; 
But 't is the happy that have called thee so. 

Ibid. Canto XT 

The Satanic school. 

From the Original Preface to the Vision of Judgment. 

* Wordsworth in his notes to We are Seven, claims to have 
Written this line with sorne others in the Ancient Mariner. 



LAMB. 297 

" But what good came of it at last ? " 

Quoth little Feterkin. 
" Why that I cannot tell," said he ; 
" But 't was a famous victory." 

The Battle of Blenheim 
Where Washington hath left 

His awful memory 

A light for after-times ! 

Ode luritten during the war with America, 1814. 
My days among the Dead are passed ; 

Around me I behold, 
Where'er these casual eyes are cast, 

The mighty minds of old ; 
My never-failing friends are they, 

With whom I converse day by day. 

Occasional Pieces xviii. 



CHARLES LAMB. 1775-1834. 

I have had playmates, I have had companions, 
In my days of childhood, in my joyful school-days, 
All. all are gone, the old familiar faces. • 

Old Familiar Faces. 
Book? which are no books. 

Detached Thoughts on Bootes. 

Who first invented work and bound the free, 
And holiday-rejoicing spirit down. Work. 

To that dry drudgery at the desk's dead wood. 

Ibid. 



298 COLERIDGE. 

SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE. 1772-1834. 
THE ANCIENT MARINER. 

We were the first that ever burst 

Into that silent sea. Part ii 

As idle as a painted ship 

Upon a painted ocean. ibid. 

Water, water, everywhere, 

Nor any drop to drink. Ibid. 

Alone, alone, all, all alone, 

Alone on a wide, wide sea. Part iv. 

A noise like of a hidden brook 

In the leafy month of June. Part v. 

He prayeth well, who loveth well 

Both man and bird and beast. Part vii. 

He prayeth best, who loveth best 

All things, both great and small. Ibid. 

A sadder and a wiser man, 

He rose the morrow morn. Ibid 



COLERIDGE. 299 

CHPaSTABEL. 

And the Spring comes slowly up this way. 

Parti. 
Alas ! they had been friends in youth ; 
But whispering tongues can poison truth ; 
And constancy lives in realms above ; 
And life is thorny ; and youth is vain ; 
And to be wrotli with one we love, 
Doth work like madness in the brain. 

Part ii. 
Forth from his dark and lonely hiding-place, 
(Portentous sight !) the owlet Atheism, 
Sailing on obscene wings athwart the noon, 
Drops his blue fringed lids, and holds them close, 
And hooting at the glorious sun in Heaven, 
Cries out, " Where is it ? " Fears in Solitude. 

And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin, 

Is pride that apes humility. 'The Devil's Thoughts. 

All thoughts, all passions, all delights, 
Whatever stirs this mortal frame, 
All are but ministers of Love, 

And feed his sacred flame. Love. 

Strongly it bears us along in swelling and limit- 
less billows, 

Nothing before and nothing behind but the sky 
and the ocean. 

The Homeric Hexameter. Translated from Schiller, 



300 COLERIDGE. 

In the hexameter rises the fountain's silvery 

column ; 
In the pentameter aye falling in melody back. 

The Ovidian Elegiac Metre. 
Blest hour ! it was a luxury — to be ! 

Reflections on having left a Place of Retirement 
Hast thou a charm to stay the morning star 
In his Steep course ? Hymn in the Vale of Chamouni. 

Eisest from forth thy silent sea of pines. ibid. 

Motionless torrents ! silent cataracts ! Ibid. 

Earth, with her thousand voices, praises God. 

Ibid. 
A mother is a mother still, 

The holiest thing alive. The Three Graves. 

Never, believe me, 

Appear the Immortals, 

Never alone. The Visit of the Gods* 

The Knight's bones are dust, 

And his good sword rust ; 

His soul is with the saints, I trust. 

The Knight's Tomb. 
To know, to esteem, to love — and then to part, 
Makes up life's tale to many a feeling heart ! 

On leaking Leave of , 18] 7. 

* Imitated from Schillee. 



COLERIDGE. 301 

Ere sin could blight or sorrow fade, 

Death came with friendly care ; 
The opening bud to Heaven conveyed, 
And bade it blossom there. 

Epitaph on an Infant, 
Joy is the sweet voice, Joy the luminous cloud. 

We in ourselves rejoice ! 
And thence flows all that charms, or ear or sight, 

All melodies the echoes of that voice, 
All colors a suffusion from that light. 

Dejection. An Ode. Stanza 5. 
Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends ! 
Hath he not always treasures, always friends, 
The good great man ? three treasures, love and 

light, 
And calm thoughts, regular as infants' breath ; 
And three firm friends, more sure than day and 

night, 
Himself, his Maker, and the angel Death. Reproof. 

Joy rises in me, like a summer's morn. 

A Christmas Carol, viii. 
The river Rhine, it is well known, 
Doth wash your city of Cologne ; 
But tell me, nymphs ! what power divine 
Shall henceforth wash the river Rhine ? Cologne 

The intelligible forms of ancient poets, 
The fair humanities of old religion, 
The power, the beauty, and the majesty, 



302 COLERIDGE. 

That had their haunts in dale, or piny mountain, 

Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring, 

Or chasms and watery depths ; all these have 

vanished ; 
They live no longer in the faith of reason. 

WaUenstein. Part i. Act ii. Sc. 4. 
Clothing the palpable and familiar 
With golden exhalations of the dawn. 

The Death of WaUenstein. Act i. Sc. 1. 
Often do the spirits 
Of great events stride on before the events, 
And in to-day already walks to-morrow. 

Ibid. Act v. Sc. 1. 
I have heard of reasons manifold 
Why love must needs be blind, 
But this the best of all I hold — 
His eyes are in his mind. 

To a Lady. Offended by a Sportive Observation. 
What outward form and feature are 

He guesseth but in part ; 
But what within is good and fail- 
He seeth with the heart. ibid. 

My eyes make pictures, when they are shut. 

A Day-Dream. 
Be that blind bard, who on the Chian strand, 
By those deep sounds possessed with inward light, 
Beheld the Eiad and the Odyssee, 
Rise to the swelling of the voiceful sea 

Fancy in Nubibits. 



MONTGOMERY. 303 



JAMES MONTGOMERY. 1771-1854. 

When the good man yields his breath 
(For the good man never dies).* 

The Wanderer of Switzerland. Pan. v 
Friend after friend departs, — 

Who hath not lost a friend ? 
There is no union here of hearts, 

That finds not here an end. Friends. 

Once, in the flight of ages past, 

There lived a man. The Common Lot. 

'T is not the whole of life to live : 
Nor all of death to die. 

The Issues of Life and Death. 
If God hath made this world so fair, 
Where sin and death abound, 
How beautiful beyond compare 
Will paradise be found. 

The Earth fall of God's Goodness 
Here in the body pent ; 
Absent from Him I roam. 
Yet nightly pitch my moving tent 
A day's march nearer home. 

At home in Heaven 
* QvTjdnuv fiij ?J}E rove aya-doic. — Callim. Ep. x. 



•304 CAMPBELL. 

THOMAS CAMPBELL. 1777-1844. 
PLEASURES OF HOPE. 

'T is distance lends enchantment to the view, 
And robes the mountain in its azure hue. 

Pari i. Line 7. 
Heaven ! he cried, my bleeding country save. 

Ibid. £im8G§. 
Hope, for a season, bade the world farewell, 
And Freedom shriek'd — as Kosciusko fell ! 

Ibid. Line 381. 
On Prague's proud arch the fires of ruin glow, 
His blood-dyed waters murmuring far below. 

Ibid. Line 385. 
And rival all but Shakspeare's name below. 

Ibid. Line 472. 
Who hath not owned, with rapture-smitten frame, 
The power of grace, the magic of a name ? 

Part ii. Line 5. 
Without the smile from partial beauty won, 
O what were man ? — a world without a sun. 

Ibid. Line 21. 
The world was sad, — the garden was a wild ; 
And Man, the hermit, sighed — till Woman smil'd. 

Ibid. Lint 37. 
While Memory watches o'er the sad review 
Of joys that faded like the morning dew. 

Ibid. Line 45. 
And muse on Nature with a poet's eye. 

Bud. Limm. 



CAMPBELL. 305 

There shall he love, when genial morn appears, 
Like pensive Beauty smiling in her tears. 

Part ii. Line 95. 
That gems the starry girdle of the year. 

Ibid. Line 19-1. 
Melt, and dispel, ye spectre-douhts, that roll 
Cimmerian darkness o'er the parting soul ! 

Ibid. Line 263. 
O star-eyed Science ! hast thou wandered there, 
To waft us home the message of despair ? 

Ibid. Line 325. 
Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, 
But leave — oh ! leave the light of Hope behind ! 
What though my winged hours of bliss have been, 
.Like angel-visits, few and far between.* 

Ibid. Line 375. 

In life's morning march, when my bosom was 
young. The Soldier's Dream. 

But sorrow returned with the dawning of mom, 
And the voice in my dreaming ear melted away. 

Ibid. 
The combat deepens. On, ye brave, 
Who rush to glory, or the grave ! Hohenlinden. 

To live in hearts we leave behind, 

Is not to die. Hallowed Ground. 

* Cf. Morris, page 176, and Blair, page 216. 
20 



306 CAMPBELL. 

The hunter and the deer a shade.* 

0' Conner's Child. Stanza iv. 
Another's sword has laid him low, 

Another's and another's ; 
And every hand that dealt the blow, 
Ah me ! it was a brother's ! 

Ibid. Stanza 10. 
I. 
Ye mariners of England ! 

That guard our native seas : 
Whose flag has braved, a thousand year? 
The battle and the breeze. 

Ye Mariners of England. 
III. 
Britannia needs no bulwarks, 
No towers along the steep ; 
Her march is o'er the mountain-waves, 
Her home is on the deep. Ibid. 

iv. 

The meteor flag of England, 

Shall yet terrific burn ; 
Till danger's troubled night depart, 

And the star of peace return. Ibid 

Triumphal arch, that fill'st the sky, 

When storms prepare to pqrt ; 
I ask not proud Philosophy 

To teach me what thou art. To the Rainboiv. 
* Verbatim from Frkxeau's Indian Burying- Grounl. 



SPENCER. 307 

'T is the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, 
And coming events cast their shadows before.* 

Lochiel's Warning. 
With his back to the field, and his feet to the foe. 

Ibid. 
A stoic of the woods, — a man without a tear. 

Gertrude. Part i. Stanza 23. 
love ! in such a wilderness as this. 

Ibid. Part iii. Stanza 1. 
The torrent's smoothness, ere it dash below. 

Ibid. Part iii. Stanza 5. 
There came to the beach a poor exile of Erin ; 

The dew on his thin robe was heavy and chill ; 
For his country he sighed, when at twilight re- 
pairing, 
To wander alone by the wind-beaten hill. 

The Exile of Erin. 



HON. WILLIAM ROBERT SPENCER. 1772-1834. 
Too late I stayed, — forgive the crime, — 

Unheeded flew the hours ; 
How noiseless falls the foot of time,f 
That only treads on flowers. 

Lines to Lady A. Hamilton. 

* Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspira- 
tion; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity 
casts upon the present. — Shelley. A Defence of Poetry. 

t Noiseless foot of time. 

AlVs Well that Ends Well. Act v. Sc. 3. 



SCOTT. 



WALTER SCOTT. 1771-1832. 
THE LAY OF THE LAST MINSTEEL. 

If thou wouldst view fair Melrose aright, 

Go visit it by the pale moonlight. Canto ii. Stanza 1. 

I was not always a man of woe. Canto ii. Stanza 12. 

I cannot tell how the truth may be ; 
1 say the tale as 't was said to me. 

Canto ii. Stanza 22. 
In peace, Love tunes the shepherd's reed ; 
In war, he mounts the warrior's steed ; 
In halls, in gay attire is seen ; 
In hamlets, dances on the green. 
Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, 
And men below, and saints above ; 
For love is heaven, and heaven is love. 

Canto iii. Stanza 1. 
Her blue eyes sought the west afar, 
For lovers love the western star. 

Canto iii. Stanza 24. 
Along thy wild and willowed shore. 

Canto iv. Stanza 1 . 
Ne'er 
Was flattery lost on Poet's ear : 
A simple race ! they waste their toil 
For the vain tribute of a smile. Canto iv. Stanza 35. 



SCOTT. 309 

Call it not vain ; — they do not err, 

"Who say, that, when the Poet dies, 

Mute Nature mourns her worshipper, 

And celebrates his obsequies. Cantor. Stanza 1 

True love 's the gift which God has given 
To man alone beneath the heaven : 

It is not fantasy's hot fire, 

Whose wishes, soon as granted, fly ; 

It liveth not in fierce desire, 

With dead desire it doth not die ; 
It is the secret sympathy, 
The silver link, the silken tie, 
"Which heart to heart, and mind to mind, 
In body and in soul can bind. Canto v. Stanza 13, 

Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, 
Who never to himself hath said, 

This is my own, my native land ! 
Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned, 
As home his footsteps he hath turned 

From wandering on a foreign strand ? 

Canto vi. Stanza 1. 
Despite those titles, power and pelf, 
The wretch, concentred all in self, 
Living, shall forfeit fair renown, 
And, doubly dying, shall go down 
To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, 
Unwept, unhonored and unsung.* Ibid. Stanza 1 
* Cf. Pope. Odyssey. Book v. 402. 



330 SCOTT. 

Caledonia ! stern and wild, 
Meet nurse for a poetic child ! . 
Land of brown heath and shaggy wood ; 
Land of the mountain and the flood. 

Canto vi. Stanza 2. 



MAKIDON. 

Profaned the God-given strength, and marred the 
lofty line. Introduction to Canto i. 

When, musing on companions gone, 
We doubly feel ourselves alone. 

Introduction to Canto ii. 
'T is an old tale and often told ; 

But did my fate and wish agree, 
Ne'er had been read, in story old, 
Of maiden true betrayed for gold, 

That loved, or was avenged, like me. 

Canto ii. Stanza 27 
In the lost battle, 

Borne down by the flying, 
Where mingles war's rattle 

With groans of the dying. Canto hi. Stanza 10. 

Lightly from fair to fair he flew, 
And loved to plead, lament, and sue ; 
Suit lightly won, and short-lived pain, 
For monarchs seldom sigh in vain. 

Canto v Stanza 9. 



SCOTT. 311 

With a smile on her lips and a tear in her eye. 

Canto v. Stanza 12. 
And dar'st thou then 
To beard the lion in his den, 
The Douglass in his hall ? Canto vi. Stanza 14. 

But woe awaits a country when 
She sees the tears of bearded men. 

Canto v. Stanza 16 
O, what a tangled web we weave, 
When first we practise to deceive. 

Canto vi. Stanza 17. 
Oh, woman ! in our hours of ease, 
Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, 
And variable as the shade 
By the light quivering aspen made ; 
When pain and anguish wring the brow, 
A ministering angel thou ! Canto vi. Stanza 30. 

" Charge, Chester, charge ! on, Stanley, on ! " 
Were the last words of Marmion. 

Canto vi. Stanza 32. 
for a blast of that dread horn * 
On Fontarabian echoes borne. Canto vi. Stanza 33. 

To all, to each, a fair good night, 

And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light. 

Canto vi. Last Lines. 

* for the voice of that wild horn. 

Rob Roy. Vol. i. ch. 2 



312 



THE LADY OF THE LAKE. 

In listening mood she seemed to stand, 
The guardian Naiad of the strand. 

Canto i. Stanza 17 

And ne'er did Grecian chisel trace 

A Nymph, a Naiad, or a Grace, 

Of finer form, or lovelier face. Canto i. Stanza 18. 

A foot more light, a step more true, 

Ne'er from the heath-flower dashed the dew. Ibid. 

On his bold visage middle age 
Had slightly pressed its signet sage. 

Canto i. Stanza 21. 
Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking, 
Morn of toil, nor night of waking. 

Canto i. Stanza 31. 
Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances. 

Canto ii. Stanza 19. 
Some feelings are to mortals given 
With less of earth in them than heaven. 

Canto ii. Stanza 22 
Like the dew on the mountain, 
Like the foam on the river, 
Like the bubble on the fountain, 

Thou art gone and for ever. Canto iii. Stanza 16 

Love is loveliest when embalmed in tears. 

Canto iv. Stanza 1. 



SCOTT. 313 

The rose is fairest when 't is budding new, 
And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears. 

Canto iv. Stanza 1. 

Art thou a friend to Roderick ? Canto iv. Stanza 30. 

Come one, come all ! this rock shall fly 

From its firm base as soon as I. Canto v. Stanza 10. 

And the stern joy which warriors feel 

In foemen worthy of their steel. Ibid. 

Who o'er the herd avouIcI wish to reign 
Fantastic, fickle, fierce and vain ! 
Vain as the leaf upon the stream, 
And fickle as a changeful dream ; 
Fantastic as a woman's mood, 
And fierce as Frenzy's fevered blood. 
Thou many-headed monster-thing, 
who Avould wish to be thy king ! 

Canto v. Stanza 30. 

"Where, where was Roderick then ? 
One blast upon his bugle horn 

Were worth a thousand men. Canto vi. Stanza 18. 

Come as the winds come, when 

Forests are rended ; 
Come as the waves come, when 

Navies are Stranded. Pibroch of Donald Dhue 



314 SCOTT. 



THE LORD OF THE ISLES. 

O many a shaft, at random sent, 

Finds mark, the archer little meant ! 

And many a word, at random spoken, 

May soothe, or wound, a heart that 's broken ! 

Canto v. Stanza 18. 
Where lives the man that has not tried 
How mirth can into folly glide, 
And folly into sin. 

The Bridal of Triermain. Canto i. Stanza 21. 
Sea of up-turned faces. Rob Roy. Chapter 20. 

There 's a gude time coming. ibid. Chapter 32. 

My foot is on my native heath, and my name is 
MacGregor. Bid. Chapter 34. 

Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife ! 

To all the sensual world proclaim, 
One crowded hour of glorious life, 

Is worth an age without a name. 

Old Mortality. Vol. ii. Chapter xxi 
Within that awful volume lies 
The mystery of mysteries ! 

The Monastery. Vol. i. Chapter xii. 
And better had they ne'er been born, 
Who read to doubt, or read to scorn. Ibid. 



315 



THOMAS MOORE. 1780-1852. 
LALLA ROOKH. 

This narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless seas, 
The past, the future, two eternities ! 

The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan. 
There 's a bower of roses by Beiidemeer's stream. 

Ibid. 
Lite the stained web that whitens in the sun, 
Grow pure by being purely shone upon. ibid. 

One morn a Peri at the gate 

Of Eden stood disconsolate. Paradise and the Peri. 

But the trail of the serpent is over them all. 

Ibid. 
0, ever thus, from childhood's hour, 

I 've seen my fondest hopes decay ; 
I never loved a tree or flower, 

But 't was the first to fade away. 

The Fire- Worshippers. 
I never nursed a dear gazelle, 

To glad me with its soft black eye, 
But when it came to know me well, 

And love me, it was sure to die. Ibid. 

Beholding heaven and feeling hell. Ibid. 

The sunshine, broken in the rill 

Though turned astray, is sunshine still. Ibid 



316 MOORE. 

Farewell, farewell to thee Araby's daughter. 

The Fire- Worshippers. 
Alas ! how light a cause may move 
Dissension between hearts that love ! 
Hearts that the world in vain had tried, 
And sorrow but more closely tied ; 
That stood the storm, when waves were rough, 
Yet in a sunny hour fall off, 
Like ships that have gone down at sea, 
"When heaven was all tranquillity. 

The Light of the Raram.- 

Love on through all ills, and love on till they 

die. Ibid. 

And, oh ! if there be an Elysium on earth, 

It is this, it is this. Ibid. 



IRISH MELODIES. 

The harp that once through Tara's- halls 

The soul of music shed, 
Now hangs as mute on Tara's walls, 

As if that soid were fled. The Harp that Once. 

Fly not yet, 't is just the hour 

When pleasure like the midnight flower, 
That scorns the eye of vulgar light, 

Begins to bloom for sons of night, 
And maids who love the moon. • Fly not YeL 



MOORE. 317 

Go where glory waits thee. Go where Glory. 

And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers, 
Is always the first to be touched by the thorns. 

think not my Spirits. 
No eye to watch, and no tongue to wound us, 
All earth forgot, and all heaven around us. 

Come o'er tne S<a. 
Rich and rare were the gems she wore. 

Rich and Rare. 
There 's not in the wide world a valley so sweet, 
As that vale in whose bosom the bright waters 

meet. The Meeting of the Waters. 

Shall I ask the brave soldier, who fights by my 

side 
In the cause of mankind, if our creeds agree ? 

Come send round the Wine. 
No, the heart thai has truly loved never forgets, 
But as truly loves on to the close ! 
As the sunflower turns on her god, when he sets, 
The same look which she turned when he rose. 

Believe me, if all those endearing. 
The moon looks 
On many brooks, 
The brook can see no moon but this.* 

While gazing on the Moon's Light. 

* This image was suggested by the following thought, 

which occurs somewhere in Sir William Jones's Works: 

'The moon looks upon many night-flowers, the night-flower 

sees but one moon." 



318 MO ORE. 

There *s nothing half so sweet in life 

As love's young dream. Love's Young Dream. 

To live with them is far less sweet 

Than to remember thee.* I saw thy Form 

'T is the last rose of summer, 

Left blooming alone. Last Rose of Summer. 

"When true hearts lie withered 

And fond ones are flown, 
Oh ! who would inhabit 

This bleak world alone ? Ibid. 

You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you 

will, 
But the scent of the roses will hang round it still. 
Farewell ! But whenever you welcome the Hour. 

Thus, when the lamp that lighted 

The traveller at first goes out, 
He feels awhile benighted, 

And looks around in fear and doubt. 
But soon, the prospect clearing, 

By cloudless starlight on he treads, 
And thinks no lamp so cheering 

As that light which Heaven sheds. 

1 'd Mourn the Hopes. 

* In imitation of Shenstone, " Heu! quanta minus est cum 
reliquis versari quam tui meminisse." 



MOORE. 319 

And when once the young heart of a maiden is 

stolen. 
The maiden herself will steal after it soon. 

Ill Omens. 
The light that lies 
In woman's eyes. The Time 1 've Los!, $i 

My only hooks 
TVere woman's looks 
And folly 's all they Ve taught me. Ibid. 

I know not, I ask not. if guilt 's in that heart, 
I hut know that I love thee, whatever thou art. 

Come, rest in this Bosom. 
Wert thou all that I wish thee, great, glorious, 

and free, 
First flower of the earth, and first gem of the 

sea. Remember Thee. 

NATIONAL AIRS. 

Those evening bells ! those evening hells ! 
How many a tale their music tells. 

Those Evening Bells. 
All that "s bright must fade, — 

The brightest still the fleetest ; 
All that 's sweet was made 
But to be lost when sweetest. 

AH that 's Bright must Fade 
As half in shade and half in sun 
This world along its path advances, 



320 MOORE. 

May that side the sun 's upon 

Be all that e'er shall meet thy glances. 

Peace be Around Thee. 

To sigh, yet feel no pain, 

To weep, yet scarce know why ; 

To sport an hour with Beauty's chain, 

Then throw it idly by. The Blue Stocking. 

Oft in the stilly night 

E'er slumber's chain has bound me, 
Fond Memory brings the light 

Of other days around me. 

Oft in the Stilly Night. 

The eyes that shone 

Now dimmed and gone. Ibid. 

I feel like one 

"Who treads alone 
Some banquet-hall deserted, 

Whose lights are fled, 

Whose garlands 'dead, 
And all but he departed. Ibid. 

I knew by the smoke that so gracefully curled 

Above the green elms that a cottage was near, 

And I said " if there 's peace to be found in the 

world, 

" A heart that was humble might hope for it 

here." Ballad Stanzas. 



MOORE. 321 

I give thee all — I can no more 

Tho' poor the offering be ; 
My heart and lute are all the store 

That I can bring to thee.* J/y Heart and Lute. 

This world is all a fleeting show, 

For man's illusion given ; 
The smiles of Joy, the tears of Woe, 

Deceitful shine, deceitful flow — 
There 's nothing true but Heaven. 

The World is all a Fleeting Show. 

Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal. 

Come, ye Disconsolate. 
A Persian's Heaven is easily made, 
'T is but black eyes and lemonade. 

Intercepted Letters. Letter vi. 
Who ran 
Thi-ough each mood of the lyre, and was master 
of all. On the Death of Sheridan. 

Whose wit, in the combat, as gentle as bright, 
Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade. 

Ibid. 
Weep on, and as thy sorrows flow, 
I '11 taste the luxury of woe. Anacreontic. 

The minds of some of our statesmen, like the 

pupil of the human eye, contract themselves the 

more, the stronger light there is shed upon them. 

Preface to Corrujition and Intolerance. 

* From Kemble's Lodoiska, Act iii. Sc. 1. 
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322 



REGINALD HEBER. 1783-1826. 



No hammers fell, no ponderous axes rung ; * 
Like some tall palm, the mystic fabric sprung. 

Majestic silence ! Palestine 

Brightest and best of the sons of the morning ! 
Dawn on our darkness, and lend us thine aid. 

Christmas Hymn 
By cool Siloam's shady rill 
How sweet the lily grows. 

First Sunday after Epiphany. ~So. H. 

When spring unlocks the flowers to paint the 

laughing soil. Seventh Sunday after Trinity. 

Death rides on every passing breeze, 

He lurks in every flower. At a Funeral. 

Thou art gone to the grave ! but we will not de- 
plore thee, 

Though sorrows and darkness encompass the 
tomb. Ibid. No. ii. 

Thus heavenly hope is all serene, 
But earthly hope, how bright soe'er, 

* Altered in later editions to 

No -workman steel, no ponderous axes rung, 
Like some tall palm the noiseless fabric sprung. 
Silently as a dream the fabric rose, 
No sound of hammer or of saw was there. 
Cowper. The Task. Book v. The Winter Morning Walk. 



SEWALL. — STORY.— WOODWORTH. 823 

Still fluctuates o'er this changing scene 

As false and fleeting as 't is fair. 

On Heavenly Hope and Earthly Hope. 
From Greenland's icy mountains, 

From India's coral strand, 
Where Afric's sunny fountains 

Roll down their golden sand. Missionary Hymn. 



JONATHAN M. SEWALL. 1748-1808. 
No pent up Utica contracts your powers, 
But the whole boundless continent is yours. 

Epilogue to Cato.* 



JOSEPH STORY. 1779-1845. 
Here shall the Press the People's right maintain, 
Unawed by influence and unbribed by gain ; 
Here patriot Truth her glorious precepts draw, 
Pledged to Religion, Liberty, and Law. 

Motto of the Salem Register, f 



SAMUEL WOODWORTH. 1785-1842. 
The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket, 
The' moss-covered bucket, which hung in the well. 

* Written for the Bow Street Theatre, Portsmouth, N. H. 
+ Life of Story. Vol. i. p. 127. 



324 



LOED BYRON. 1788-1824. 
childe harold's pilgrimage. 

Maidens, like moths, are ever caught by glare, 
And Mammon wins his way where Seraphs might 
despair. Canto i. Stanza 9. 

My native land — good night ! Canto i. Stanza 13. 

Oh, Christ ! it is a goodly sight to see 

What Heaven hath done for this delicious land. 

Cunlo i. Stanza 15. 
In hope to merit Heaven by making earth a Hell. 

Canto i. Stanza 20. 
By Heaven ! it is a splendid sight to see 
For one who hath no friend, no brother there. 

Canto i. Stanza 40. 
War, war is still the cry, " war even to the knife ! " * 

Canto i. Stanza 86. 
A school-boy's tale, the wonder of an hour ! 

Canto ii. Stanza 2. 

Dim with the mist of years, gray flits the shade 

of power. Canto ii. Stanza 2. 

The dome of Thought, the palace of the Soul.f 

Canto ii. Stanza 6. 

* " War even to the knife," was the reply of Palafox, the 
governor of Saragoza, when summoned to surrender by the 
French when they beseiged that city in 1808. 

t And keeps the palace of the soul. — Waller. On Tea 



BYRON. 325 

All ! happy years ! once more who would not be 
a boy ? Canto ii. Stanza 23. 

Fair Greece ! sad relic of departed worth ! 
Immortal, though no more ; though fallen, great ! 
Canto ii. Stanza 78. 
Hereditary bondsmen ! know ye not, 
Who would be free, themselves must strike the 
blow ? Canto ii. Stanza 76. 

Where'er we tread, 't is haunted, holy ground. 

Canto ii. Stanza 88. 

Age shakes Athena's towers, but spares gray 

Marathon. ibid. 

Ada ! sole daughter of my house and heart. 

Canto iii. Stanza 1. 
Years steal 
Fire from the mind as vigor from the limb ; 
And life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the 
brim. Canto iii. Stanza 8. 

There was a sound of revelry by night, 
And Belgium's Capital had gathered then 
Her Beauty and her Chivalry, and bright 
The lamps shone o'er fair women and bi'ave 

men ; 
A thousand hearts beat happily ; and when 
Music arose with its voluptuous swell, 



326 BYRON. 

Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, 
And all went merry as a marriage-bell. 

Canto iii. Stanza 21. 
On with the dance ! let joy be unconfined. 

Canto iii. Stanza 22. 
And there was mounting in hot haste. 

Canto iii. Stanza 25. 

Or whispering, with white lips — " The foe! They 

come ! They come ! " ibid. 

Battle's magnificently-stern array ! 

Canto iii. Stanza 28. 
The castled crag of Drachenfels 
Frowns o'er the wide and winding Rhine. 

Canto iii. Stanza 55. 
He had kept 
The whiteness of his soul, and thus men o'er him 
wept. Canto iii. Stanza 57. 

The sky is changed ! and such a change ! O night, 
And storm, and darkness ! ye are wondrous strong, 
Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light 
Of a dark eye hi woman ! Far along, 
From peak to peak, the rattling crags among 
Leaps the live thunder. Canto iii. Stanza 92. 

Sapping a solemn creed with solemn sneer. 

Canto iii. Stanza 107. 
I have not loved the world, nor the world me. 

Canto iii. Stanza 113. 



BYRON. 327 

I stood ainong them, but not of them. 

Canto iii. Stanza 113. 
I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs ; 
A palace and a prison on each hand. 

Canto iv. Stanza 1. 

Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hun- 
dred isles. Ibid. 

The cold — the changed — perchance the dead 

anew, 
The mourned, the loved, the lost — too many! 

yet how few ! Canto iv. Stanza 24. 

Fills the air around with beauty. ibid. 

The starry Galileo with his woes. 

Canto iv. Stanza 54. 

The hell of waters ! where they howl and hiss. 

Canto iv. Stanza 69. 
The Xiobe of nations ! there she stands. 

Canto iv. Stanza 79. 
Man! 
Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear. 

Canto iv. Stanza 109. 

The nympholepsy of some fond despair. 

Canto iv. Stanza 115. 
There were his young barbarians all at play, 
Tltere was their Dacian mother — he, their sire, 
Butchered to make a Roman holiday. 

Canto iv. Stanza 141, 



828 BYRON. 

While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand ; 
When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall ; 
And when Rome falls, the world.* 

Canto iv. Stanza 145. 

! that the desert were my dwelling-place, 
With one fair spirit for my minister, 

That I might all forget the human race, 
And, hating no one, love but only her ! 

Canto iv. Stanza 177. 
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, 
There is a rapture on the lonely shore, 
There is society where none intrudes 
By the deep Sea, and music in its roar: 

1 love not Man the less, but Nature more. 

Canto iv. Stanza 178. 
Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean — roll ! 
Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain ; 
Man marks the earth with ruin — his control 
Stops with the shore. Cardo iv. Stanza 179. 

Without a grave, unknelled, uncoffmed, and un- 
known. Hid, 

Time writes no wrinkle on thy azure brow — f 
Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. 
Canto iv. Stanza 182. 

* The exclamation of the pilgrims in the eighth century. 
as recorded by the Venerable Bede. 

t And thou vast ocean, on whose awful face 
Time's iron feet can print no ruin-trace. 
BoBiarr Montgomery. The Omnij/resence of the Deity. 



BYRON. 329 

And I have loved thee, Ocean ! and my joy 
Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be 
Borne, like thy bubbles onward. 

' Canto iv. Stanza 184, 
And laid my hand upon thy mane — as I do here.* 

Ibid 
And what is writ, is writ. 
Would it were worthier ! Canto iv. Stoma 185. 

Farewell ! a word that must be, and hath been — 
A sound which makes us linger; — yet — fare- 
well. Canto iv. Stanza 186. 



THE GIAOUK. 

He who hath bent him o'er the dead 

Ere the first day of death is fled, 

The first dark day of nothingness,- 

The last of danger and distress, 

Before Decay's effacing fingers 

Have swept the lines where beauty lingers. 

Line 68. 
Such is the aspect of this shore ; 
'T is Greece, but living Greece no more ! 
So coldly sweet, so deadly fair, 
"We start, for soul is wanting there. Line 90, 

Shrine of the mighty ! can it be 
That this is all remains of thee ? Line 106. 

* Cf. Pollok. Page 344. 



330 ' BYRON. 

For freedom's battle, once begun, 

Bequeathed by bleeding sire to son, 

Though baffled oft, is ever won. Line 123. 

And lovelier things have mercy shown 

To every failing but their own ; 

And every woe a tear can claim, 

Except an erring sister's shame. Line 418. 

Better to sink beneath the shock 

Than moulder piecemeal on the rock. Line 969. 

The cold in clime are cold in blood, 

Their love can scarce deserve the name. Line 1099. 

I die — but first I have possessed, 

And come what may, I have been blest. Line 1114. 

She was a form of life and light, 
That, seen, became a part of sight, 
And rose where'er I turned mine eye, 
The morning star of memory. 
Yes, love indeed is light from heaven ; 

A spark of that immortal fire, 
With angels shared, by Allah given, 

To lift from earth our low desire. Line 1127 

I I is the hour Avhen from the boughs 
The nightingale's high note is heard ; 

It is the hour when lovers' vows 

Seem sweet in every whispered word. 

Parisina. Stanza 1. 



BYRON. 331 



THE BRIDE OF ABYDOS. 

Know ye the laud where the cypress and myrtle, 
Are emblems of deeds that are done in their 
clime ; 
Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the 
turtle, 
Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime ? * 
Where the virgins are soft as the roses they 

twine, 
And all, save the spirit of man, is divine ? 

Canto i. Stanza 1. 
The light of love, the purity of grace, 
The mind, the music breathing from her face, 
The heart whose softness harmonized the whole, 
And oh ! that eye was in itself a soul. 

Canto i. Stanza 6, 
The blind old man of Scio's rocky isle. 

Canto ii. Stanza 2. 
Be thou the rainbow to the storms of life ! 

Canto ii. Stanza 20. 
The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, 
And tints to-morrow with prophetic ray ! Ibid. 

He makes a solitude, and calls it — peace.j Ibid. 

* Know'st thou the land where the lemon -trees bloom, 
Where the gold orange glows in the deep thicket's gloom, 
Where a wind ever soft from the blue heaven blows, 
And the groves are of laurel, and myrtle, and rose? 

Goethe. Wilhelm Jleister. 
t Solitudiuem faciunt, — paeem appellant. 

Tacitus. Agricola, cap. 30. 



332 ' BYRON. 



THE CORSAIR. 



O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea, 
Our thoughts as boundless, and our souls as free, 
Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam, 
Survey our empire, and behold our home. 

Canto i. Stanza 1. 
She walks the waters like a thing of life, 
And seems to dare the elements to strife. 

Canto i. Stanza 3. 
The power of Thought, — the magic of the Mind. 

Canto i. Stanza 8. 

The many still must labor for the one ! Ibid. 

There was a laughing devil in his sneer. 

Canto i. Stanza 9. 

Hope withering fled, and mercy sighed Fare- 
well ! ibid. 

Farewell ! 
For in that word, — that fatal word, — howe'er 
"We promise — hope — believe, — there breathes 
despair. Canto i. Stanza 15. 

No words suffice the secret soul to show, 
For truth denies all eloquence to avoc. 

Canto iii. Stanza 22. 
He left a corsair's name to other times, 
Linked with one virtue, and a thousand crimes. 

Canto iii. Stanza 24. 



BYRON. 333 

BEPPO. 

For most men (till by losing rendered sager) 
Will back their own opinions by a wager. 

Stanza 27. 
Sophrano, basso, even the contra-alto 
Wished him five fathom under the Eialto. 

Stanza 82. 
His heart was one of those which most enamor us, 
Wax to receive, and marble to retain.* 

Stanza 34. 
Heart on her lips, and soul within her eyes, 
Soft as her clime, and sunny as her skies. 

Stanza 45. 

0, Mirth and Innocence ! 0, Milk and Water ! 
Te happy mixtures of more happy days ! 

Stanza 80. 

MAZEPPA. 

And if we do but watch the hour, 
There never yet was human power 

Which could evade if unforgiven, 
The patient search and vigil long 
Of him who treasures up a wrong. 

* For her my heart is wax to be moulded as she pleases, 
but enduring as marble to retain ■whatever impression she 
shall make upon it. — Cekva>tes. La Gilanilla. 



334 BYRON. 



THE DREAM. 



And both were young, and one was beautiful. 

Stanza ii, 
And to Ids eye 
There was but one beloved face on earth, 
And that was shining on him. Ibid. 

She was his life, 
The ocean to the river of his thoughts,* 
Which terminated all. ibid. 

A change came o'er the spirit of my dream. 

Slansa ill. 
And they were canopied by the bine sky, 
So cloudless, clear, and purely beautiful, 
That God alone was to be seen in Heaven. 

Stanza iv. 

ENGLISH BARDS AND SCOTCH REVIEWERS. 

'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name- in print ; 
A book \s a book, although there 's nothing in 't. 

Line 51, 
As soon 
Seek roses in December, — ice in June ; 
Hope constancy in wind, or corn in chaff. 

• She floats upon the river of bis thoughts. — Longfellow. 
TTie Spanish Student. Act ii. Sc. 3. 
Si che chiaro 

Per essa scen'la della mente il flume. — Dante. 



BYE OX. 335 

Believe a woman, or an epitaph, 

Or any other thing that 's false, before 

You trust in critics. LAne 75. 

Perverts the Prophets and purloins the Psalms. 

Line 326. 
Amos Cottle ! Phoebus ! what a name ! 

Lint 399. 
So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain, 
No more through rolling clouds to soar again, 
Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart, 
And winged the shaft that quivered in his heart. 

Line 826. 
When all of Genius which' can perish dies. 

Monody on the Death of Sheridan. Line 22. 
Folly loves the martyrdom of Fame. Line 68. 

Who track the steps of Glory to the grave. 

Line 74. 
Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, 
And broke the die in moulding Sheridan.* 

Last Lines. 
Sublime tobacco ! which from east to west 
Cheers the tar's labor or the Turkman's rest. 

The Island. Canto ii. Stanza 19. 



* Xatura il fece, e poi ruppe la starapa. — Ariosto. 

Orlando Furioso. Canto x. Stanza 80. 
" The idea, that Nature lust the perfect mould has been a fa- 
vorite one with all song writers and poets, and is found in the 
literature of all European nations." 



336 BYRON. 

Divine in hookas, glorious in a pipe, 

When tipped with amber, mellow, rich, and 

ripe; 
Like other charmers, wooing the caress 
More dazzlingly when daring in full dress ; 
Yet thy true lovers more admire by far 
Thy naked beauties — give me a cigar ! 

The Island. Canto ii. Stanza 19. 
Oh, God ! it is a fearful thing 
To see the human soul take wing 
In any shape, in any mood. Prisoner of Chillon viii. 

I had a dream which was not all a dream. 

Darkness. 
Lord of himself, — that heritage of woe ! 

Lara. Canto i. Stanza 2, 
She walks in beauty, like the night 

Of cloudless climes and starry skies ; 
And all that 's best of dark and bright 

Meet in her aspect and her eyes ; 
Thus mellowed to that tender light 
"Which Heaven to gaudy clay denies. 

Hebrew Melodies. 
Fare thee well ! and if for ever, 
Still for ever, fare thee well. 

Fare Thee Well. 
Hands promiscuously applied, 
Round the slight waist, or down the glowing 
side. The Waltz. 



BYE ox. 337 

They never fail who die 

In a great cause. Marino Faliero. Act ii. Sc. 2. 

Bom in a garret, in the kitchen bred. A Sketch. 



In virtues nothing earthly could surpass her, 
Save thine " incomparable oil " Macassar ! 

Canto i. Stanza 17. 
But, ye lords of ladies intellectual ! 
Inform us truly, have they not hen-pecked you 
all ? Canto i. Stanza 22. 

Christians have burned each other, quite per- 
suaded 

That all the Apostles would have done as they 
did. Canto i. Stanza 83. 

Whispering " I will ne'er consent," consented. 

Canto i. Stanza 117. 

'T is sweet to hear the watch-dog's honest bark 
Bay deep-mouthed welcome as we draw near 

home ; 
'T is sweet to know there is an eye will mark 
Our coming and look brighter when we come. 

Canto i. Stanza 128. 
And truant husband should return, and say, 
" My dear, I was the first who came away." 

Canto i. Stanza 141. 



338 



Man's love is of man's life a thing apart, 

'T is woman's whole existence. Canto i. Stanza 194 

What is the end of Fame ? 't is but to fill 
A certain portion of uncertain paper. 

Canto i. Stanza 218. 
At leaving the most unpleasant people 
And places, one keeps looking at the steeple. 

Canto ii. Stanza 14. 
A solitary shriek, the bubbling cry 
Of some strong swimmer in his agony. 

Canto ii. Stanza 53. 
All who joy would win 
Must share it, — Happiness was born a twin. 

Canto ii. Stanza 172. 
Alas ! the love of women ! it is known 
To be a lovely and a fearful thing. 

Canto ii. Stanza 199. 
In her first passion, woman loves her lover : 
In all the others, all she loves is love.* 

Canto iii. Stanza 3. 
He was the mildest mannered man 
That ever scuttled ship, or cut a throat. 

Canto iii. Stanza 41. 
The isles of Greece ! the isles of Greece ! 
Where burning Sappho loved and sung. 

Canto iii. Stanza 86. V. 1. 

* Dans les premieres passions les femmes aiment 1'amant, 
et dans les autres elles aiment 1'amour. 

La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 491 



BYRON. 339 

Eternal summer gilds them yet, 
But all, except their sun, is set. 

Canto iii. Stanza 86. v. 1. 
The mountains look on Marathon — 

And Marathon looks on the sea; 
And musing there an hour alone, 

I dreamed that Greece might still be free. 

Canto iii. Stanza 86. v. 3. 
You have the Pyrrhic dance as yet, 

"Where is the Pyrrhic phalanx gone ? 
Of two such lessons, why forget 

The nobler and the manlier one ? 
You have the letters Cadmus gave — 
Think ye he meant them for a slave ? 

Canto iii. Stanza 86. v. 10. 
Place me on Sunium's marbled steep, 

Where nothing, save the waves and I, 
May hear our mutual murmurs sweep ; 
There, swan-like, let me sing and die. 

Canto iii. Stanza 86. v. 16. 
The precious porcelain of human clay.* 

Canto iv. Stanza 2. 

"Whom the gods love die young," was said of 

yore.f Canto iv. Stanza 12 

* Cf. Drtden. Don Sebastian. Act i. Sc. 1. 
t Quem Di diligunt 
Adolescens moritur. 

Plautus. Bacch. Act iv. Sc. 6. Line 18, 
'Ov oi $eol ^>i?ioiatv unodvljoKEi ve'of. — Menandek. 



340 - BYRON. 

These two hated with a hate 

Found only on the stage. Canto iv. Stanza 93 

" Arcades ambo," id est — blackguards both. 

Canto iv. Ibid, 

" darkly, deeply, beautifully blue," 

As some one somewhere sings about the sky. 

Canto iv. Stanza 110, 
That all-softening, overpowering knell, 
The tocsin of the soul — the dinner bell. 

Canto v. Stanza 49. 

The women pardoned all except her face. 

Canto v. Stanza 113. 
Heroic, stoic Cato, the sententious, 
Who lent his lady to his friend Hortensius. 

Canto vi. Stanza 7. 
Oh for a forty parson power. Canto x. Stanza 34. 

Society is now one polished horde, 
Formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and 
Bored. Canto xiii. Stanza 95. 

'T h strange — but true ; for truth is always 

strange, 
Stranger than fiction. Canto xiv. Stanza 101 

The Devil hath not, in all his quiver's choice, 
An arrow for the heart like a sweet voice. 

Canto xv. Stanza 13, 

1 awoke one morning and found myself famous. 

Memoranda from his Life. 



HUNT. — SHELLE T. 341 



LEIGH HUNT. 1784-1859. 
Oil for a seat in some poetic nook, 
Just hid with trees and sparkling with a brook. 

Politics and Poetics. 
"With spots of sunny openings, and with nooks 
To lie and read in, sloping into brooks. 

The Story of Rimini, 



PEECY BYSSHE SHELLEY. 1792-1822. 
How wonderful is death ! 
Death and his brother sleep Queen Mab. 

Life, like a dome of many-colored glass, 

Stains the white radiance of eternity. Adonais. 

Music, when soft voices die 

Vibrates in the memory; 
Odors, when sweet violets sicken, 

Live within the sense they quicken. To . 

The desire of the moth for the star, 

Of the night for the morrow, 
The devotion to something afar 
From the sphere of our sorrow ! 

Poems written in 1821. 
Most wretched men 
Aje cradled into poetry by wrong ; 
They learn in suffering what they teach in song. 
Julian and Maddalo. 



342 DRAKE. — BEMANS. 

JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE. 1795-1820 
When Freedom from her mountain height 

Unfurled her standard to the air, 
She tore the azure robe of night, 

And set the stars of glory there. 
She mingled with its gorgeous dyes 
The milky baldric of the skies, 
And striped its pure, celestial white, 
"With streakings of the morning light. 

Flag of the free heart's hope and home ! 

By angel hands to valor given ; 
Thy stars have lit the welkin dome, 

And all thy hues were born in heaven. 
Forever float that standard sheet ! 

Where breathes the foe but falls before us, 
With Freedom's soil beneath our feet, 

■ And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us. 

The American Flag. 



FELICIA HEMAXS. 1794-1835. 
Leaves have their time to fall, 
And flowers to wither at the North- wind's breath, 

And stars to set ; — but all, 
Thou hast all seasons for thine own, Death ! 

The Hour of Death. 



KEATS. 343 

Ay, call it holy ground, 

The soil where first they trod, 
They have left unstained what there they found — 

Freedom to worship God. 

The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers in New England. 



JOHX KEATS. 1796-1821. 
A thing of beauty is a joy forever ; 
Its loveliness increases ; it will never 
Pass into nothingness. Endymion. Line 1. 

Music's golden tongue 
Flattered to tears this aged man and poor. 

The Eve of St. Agnes. Stanza 3. 
And lucent sirups, tinct with cinnamon. 

Ibid. Stanza 30. 
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard 

Are sweeter ; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on ; 
Not to the sensual ear, but, more endeared 
Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone. 

Ode on a Grecian Urn. 
Beauty is truth, truth beauty, — that is all 
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. 

Ibid. 
Those green-robed senators of mighty woods, 
Tall oaks, branch-charmed by the earnest stars, 
Dream, and so dream all night without a stir. 

Hyperion, 
That large utterance of the early gods. Ibid. 



344 WOLFE. — P OLL OK. 

Hear ye not the hum 
Of mighty workings. Sonnet to Haydon 

Then felt I like some watcher of the skies 
When a new planet swims into bis ken ; 

Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes 
He stared at the Pacific — and all his men 

Looked at each other with a wild surmise — 

Silent, upon a peak in Darien. Sonnet xi 



CHARLES WOLFE. 1791-1823. 

Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note. 

The Burial of Sir John Moore. 
"We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, 
But we left him alone with his glory ! ibid. 

But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, 

With his martial cloak around him. ibid. 



ROBERT POLLOK. 1798-1827. 
He laid his hand upon " the Ocean's mane " 
And played familiar with his hoary locks.* 

The Course of Time. Book iv. Line 

* And I have loved thee, Ocean ! 



And laid my hand upon thy mane. 

Bykox. Chihk Harold, Canto iv. St. 184 



PA TNE. — MILNES. 345 

He was a man 

Who stole the livery of the court of Heaven 
To serve the Devil in. Book viii. Line 616. 

With one hand he put 
A penny in the urn of poverty, 
And with the other took a shilling out. 

Ibid. Line 632 



J. HOWARD PAYNE. 1792-1852. 
Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, 
Be it ever so humble there 's no place like home.* 
Home, Sweet Home.] 



RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES. 
But on and up, where Nature's heart 
Beats strong amid the hills. 

Tragedy of the Lac de Gaiibe. St. 2. 
Great thoughts, great feelings, came to them, 
Like* instincts, unawares. The Men of Old. 

A man's best things are nearest him, 

Lie close about his feet. [bid. 

* " Home is home though it be never so homely." was a 
proverb; it is found in the collections of the seventeenth 
century 

t From the Opera of Clari — the Maid of Milan. 



346 HOOD. 

THOMAS HOOD. 1798-1845. 
We watched her breathing through the night 

Her breathing soft and low, 
As in her breast the wave of life 

Kept heaving to and fro. The Death-Bed. 

Our very hopes belied our fears, 

Our fears our hopes belied ; 
We thought her dying when she slept, 

And sleeping when she died. Ibid 

One more Unfortunate 
Weary of breath 
Rashly importunate, 
Gone to her death. 

The Bridge of Sighs 
Take her up tenderly, 
Lift her with care ; 
Fashioned so slenderly, 
Young, and so fair ! Ibid 

Alas ! for the rarity 
Of Christian charity 
Under the sun. Ibid. 

Even God's providence 

Seeming estranged. Ibid. 

Boughs are daily rifled 
By the gusty thieves, 



hood. 347 

And the book of Nature 

Getteth short of leaves. The Seasons. 

When he is forsaken, 
"Withered and shaken, 
What can an old man do but die ? Ballad. 

Tt is not linen you 're wearing out, 

But human creatures' lives.* 

Song of the Shirt. 
My tears must stop, for every drop, 

Hinders needle and thread. Ibid, 

And there is ev'n a happiness 
That makes the heart afraid. 

Ode to Melancholy. 
There 's not a string attuned to mirth, 
But has its chord in Melancholy. Ibid. 

I remember, I remember 

The fir-trees dark and high ; 

1 used to think their slender tops 

Were close against the sky ; 

It was a childish ignorance, 

But now 't is little joy 

To know I 'm further off" from heaven 

Than when I was a boy. 

I Remember, I Remember, 

* It 's no fish ye 're buying, it 's men's lives. 

Scott. The Antiquary, Chap. xi. 



348 PROCTER. 

Seemed washing his hands with invisible soap 
In imperceptible water. Miss Kilmansegg 

Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold! 

Bright arid yellow, hard and cold. Her Moral. 

Spurned by the young, but hugged by the old 
To the very verge of the churchyard mould. 

Ibid. 
How widely its agencies vary -^- 
To save — to ruin — to curse — to bless — 
As even its minted coins express, 
Now stamped with the image of Good Queen Bess, 
And now of a Bloody Mary. ibid. 

Oh ! would I were dead now, 
Or up in my bed now, 
To cover my head now 
And have a good cry ! 

A Table of Errata. 



BRYAN W. PROCTER. 
The sea ! the sea ! the open sea ! 
The blue, the fresh, the ever free ! The Sea. 

1 never was on the dull, tame shore, 
But I loved the great sea more and more. 

Ibid. 



349 



SAMUEL ROGERS. 1763-1S55. 
A guardian-angel o'er his life presiding, 
Doubling his pleasures, and his cares dividing. 

Human Life. 
The soul of music slumbers in the shell, 
Till waked and kindled by the master's spell ; 
And feeling hearts — touch them but rightly — ■ 

pour 
A thousand melodies unheard before ! Ibid. 

Then, never less alone than when alone.* Ibid. 

Those that he loved so long and sees no more, 
Loved and still loves, — not dead, but gone be- 
fore, — 
He gathers round him. Ibid. 

Mine be a cot beside the hill ; 

A beehive's hum shall soothe my ear ; 
A willowy brook, that turns a mill, 

With many a fall, shall linger near. A Wish. 

That very law which moulds a tear 

And bids it trickle from its source, 

That law preserves the earth a sphere 

And guides the planets in their course. To a Tear. 

* Numquam se minus otiosum esse, quam quum otiosus, 
nee minus solum, quam quum solus esset. 

Cicero. Be Officiis, Lib. iii. cap. 1. 



350 LYTTON.— MASON. 

She was good as she was fair. 
None — none on earth above her ! 
As pure in thought as angels are, 
To know her was to love her* Jacqueline. St. 1. 

The good are better made by ill, 

As odors crushed are sweeter still. Ibid. St. 3. 



EDWARD BULWER LYTTON. 
Beneath the rule of men entirely great 
The pen is mightier than the sword. 

Richelieu. Act ii. Sc. 2. 
Take away the sword, 
States can be saved without it. ibid. 

In the lexicon of youth, which fate reserves 
For a bright manhood, there is no such word 
As —fail. Act ii. Sc. 2. 



WILLIAM MASON. 1725-1797. 

The fattest hog in Epicurus' sty. Heroic Epistle. 

* To see her is to love her, 
And love but her forever. 

Burns. Bonnie Lesley. 
I will, if you please, take you to the house, and introduce 
you to its worthy master, whom to know is to love. 

Sir Humphry Davy. Salmonia. Eighth Day. 
Xone knew thee but to love thee. 

Halleck. On the Death of Dr alee. 



TENNYSON. 351 



ALFRED TENNYSON. 

Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all 

its chords with might ; 
Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling passed in 

music out of sight. Locksley Hall. 

He will hold thee, when his passion shall have 

spent its novel force, 
Something bettei than his dog, a little dearer than 

his horse. Ibid. 

This is truth the poet sings, 
That a sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering 
happier things. ibid. 



With a little hoard of maxims preaching down a 
daughter's heart. Ibid. 

But the jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that 
Honor feels. Ibid. 

Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing 

purpose runs, 
And the thoughts of men are widened with the 

process of the suns. Ibid. 



352 TENNYSON. 

I will take some savage woman, she shall rear my 
dusky race. Locksley Hall. 

I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of 
time. Ibid. 

Let the great world spin forever down the ringing 
grooves of change. Ibid. 

Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay. 

Ibid. 
And topples round the dreary west 
A looming bastion fringed with fire. 

In Mcmoriam. xv. 
'T is better to have loved and lost, 
Than never to have loved at all. Ibid, xxvii. 

Love, fire ! once he drew 

With one long kiss my whole soul through 

My lips, as sunlight driuketh dew. 

Futima. St. 3. 
Jewels five-words long, 
That on the stretched forefinger of all time, 
Sparkle forever. The Princess. Canto ii. 

Tears, idle tears, I know not what they meau. 
Tears from the depth of some divine despair 
Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, 
In looking on the happy Autumn fields, 
And thinking of the days that are no more. 

Ibid. Canto iv. 



TENNYSON. 353 

Dear as remembered kisses after death, 
And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feigned 
On lips that are for others ; deep as love, 
Deep as first love, and wild with all regret ; 
Death in Life, the days that are no more. 

The Princess. Canto iv. 
Sweet is every sound, 
Sweeter thy voice, but every sound is sweet ; 
Myriads of rivulets hurrying through the lawn, 
The moan of doves in immemorial elms, 
And murmuring of innumerable bees. 

Ibid. Canto vii. 

* Happy he 
With such a mother ! faith in womankind 
Beats with his blood, and trust in all things high 
Comes easy to him, and though he trip and fall, 
He shall not blind his soul with clay. Ibid. 

From yon blue heaven above us bent, 
The grand old gardener and his wife 

Smile at the claims of long descent. 

* Lady Clara Vere de Vere. 

Howe'er it be, it seems to me, 

'T is only noble to be good.* 
Kind hearts are more than coronets, 

And simple faith than Norman blood. Ibid. 

For it was in the golden prime 
Of good Haroun Alraschid. 

Recollections of the Arabian Nights. 
* Cf. Winefreda, page 254. 



354 TA YL OR. — BA TLB Y. 

HENRY TAYLOR. 

The world knows nothing of its greatest men. 

Philip Van Artevelde. Part i. Act i. Sc. 6, 
He that lacks time to mourn lacks time to mend. 
Eternity moxirns that. Ibid. Act i. Sc. 5. 

We figure to ourselves 
The thing we like, and then we build it up 
As chance will have it, on the rock or sand : 
For thought is tired of wandering o'er the world 
And homebound fancy runs her bark ashore. 

Ibid. 
Such souls 
Whose sudden visitations daze the world, 
Vanish like lightning, but they leave behind 
A voice that in the distance far away 
Wakens the slumbering ages. Act i. Sc. 7. 



PHILIP JAMES BAILEY. 
We live in deeds, not years ; in thoughts, not 

breaths ; 
In feelings, not in figures on a dial. 
We should count time by heart-throbs. He most 

lives 
Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best. 

Festus. 



HER VET. — ALDRICH. 355 

THOMAS K. HERVEY. 1804-1859. 
The tomb of him who would have made 
The world too glad and free. 

The Devil's Progress 

He stood beside a cottage lone, 

And listened to a lute, 
One summer's eve, when the breeze was gone, 

And the nightingale was mute ! Ibid. 

Like ships, that sailed for sunny isles, 

But never came to shore ! Bid. 

A Hebrew knelt, in the dying light, 

His eye was dim and cold, 

The hairs on his brow were silver-white, 

And his blood was thin and old. Ibid. 



JAMES ALDRICH. 1810-1856. 
Her suffering ended with the day, ■ 

Yet lived she at its close, 
And breathed the long, long night away, 

In statue-like repose ! A Death-Bed. 

But when the sun, in all his state, 

Illumed the eastern skies, 
She passed through Glory's morning gate, 

And walked in Paradise. Ibid. 



356 BRYANT. 

WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT. 
To him who in the love of Nature holds 
Communion with her visible forms, she speaks 
A various language. Thanatopsis, 

Go forth, under the open sky, and list 

To Nature's teachings. Ibid. 

Sustained and soothed 
By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, 
Like one that wraps the drapery of his couch 
About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams. 

Ibid. 

The stormy March has come at last, 

With wind and clouds and changing skies ; 

I hear the rushing of the blast 

That through the snowy valley flies. March. 

The groves were God's first temples. 

Forest Hymn. 
, But 'neath yon crimson tree, 
Lover to listening maid might breathe his flame, 
Nor mark, within its roseate canopy, 

Her blush of maiden shame. Autumn Woods 

The melancholy days are come, 

The saddest of the year, 
Of availing winds, and naked woods, 

And meadows brown and sear. 

The Death of the Flowers. 



EMERSON.— HALLE CK. 357 

Truth crushed to earth shall rise again : 
The eternal years of God are hers ; 

But Error, wounded, writhes with pain, 
And dies among his worshippers. 

The Battle-Field. 



RALPH WALDO EMERSON. 
The hand that rounded Peter's dome, 
And groined the aisles of Christian Rome. 

The Problem 
He builded better than he knew. ibid. 

Earth proudly wears the Parthenon 

As the best gem upon her zone. ibid. 

Here once the embattled farmers stood, 
And fired the shot heard round the world. 

Hymn. At the Completion of the Concord Monument. 



FITZ-GREENE HALLECK. 

Strike — for your altars and your fires ; 
Strike — for the green graves of your sires ; 
God, and your native land ! Marco Bozzaris 

Come to the bridal chamber, Death ! 
Come to the mother's, when she feels, 



858 HALLECK. 

For the first time, her first-bora's breath ; 

Come when the blessed seals 
That close the pestilence are broke, 
And crowded cities wail its stroke ; 
Come in consumption's ghastly form, 
The earthquake shock, the ocean storm ; 
Come when the heart beats high and warm, 

With banquet song, and dance, and wine ; 
And thou art terrible — the tear, 
The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier ; 
And all we know, or dream, or fear 

Of agony, are thine. Marco Bozzaris 

But to the hero, when his sword 

Has won the battle for the free, 
Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word ; 
And in its hollow tones are heard 

The thaiuks of millions yet to be. Ibid. 

One of the few, the immortal names, 

That were not born to die. Ibid. 

Green be the turf above thee, 

Friend of my better days ; 
None knew thee but to love thee,* 

Nor named thee but to praise. 

On lite Death of Joseph Rodman Drake. 

* Cf. Rogeks. Jacqueline. 



SPRAUUE. 359 

Such graves as his are pilgrim-shrines, 
Shrines to no code or creed confined, — 

The Delphian vales, the Palestines, 

The Meccas of the mind. Bw-ns. 

They love their land, because it is their own, 
And scorn to give aught other reason why ; 

Would shake hands with a king upon his throne, 
And think it kindness to his majesty. 

Connecticut. 



CHARLES SPRAGUE. 

Lo, where the stage, the poor, degraded stage, 
Holds its warped mirror to a gaping age. 

Curiosity. 
Through life's dark road his sordid way he wends, 
An incarnation ef fat dividends. ibid. 

Behold ! in Liberty's unclouded blaze 
We lift our heads, a race of other days. 

Centennial Ode. St. 22. 
Yes, social friend, I love thee well, 

In learned doctors' spite ; 
Thy clouds all other clouds dispel, 

And lap me in delight. To my Cigar. 



SeC LONGFELLOW. 

HENRY W. LONGFELLOW. 

Tell me not, in mournful numbers, 

" Life is but an empty dream ! " 

For the soul is dead that slumbers, 

And things are not what they seem- 

A Psalm of Life. 
Art is long, and Time is fleeting.* Ibid. 

Let the dead Past bury its dead ! Ibid. 

Lives of great men all remind us 
We can make our lives sublime, 

And, departing, leave behind us 

Footprints on the sands of time. Ibid. 



Still achieving, still pursuing, 
Learn to labor and to wait. 



Ibi 



Know how sublime a thing it is 
To suffer and be strong. 

The Light of Stars. 
For Time will teach thee soon the truth, 
There are no birds in last year's nest ! 

It is not always ^fay 
Standing, with reluctant feet, 
Where the brook and river meet, 
Womanhood and childhood fleet ! Maidenhood 

* Lite is short, and art is long. 

HirroCRATKs. (Aphorism i.) 



HOLMES. 361 

suffering, sad humanity ! 
O ye afflicted ones, who lie 
Steeped to the lips in misery. 
Longing, and yet afraid to die, 
Patient, though sorely tried ! 

The Goblet of Life. 
There is no flock, however watched and tended, 

But one dead lamb is there ! 
There is no fireside, howsoe'er defended, 

But has one vacant chair. Resignation. 

The air is full of farewells to the dying, 

And mournings for the dead. Ibid. 

Time has laid his hand 
Upon my heart, gently, not smiting it, 
But as a harper lays his open palm 
Upon his harp, to deaden its vibrations. 

The Golden Legend. 



OLIVEE WENDELL HOLMES. 
The freeman casting with unpurchased hand 
The vote that shakes the turrets of the land. 

A Metrical Essay. 

Ay, tear her tattered ensign down ! 

Long has it waved on high, 
And many an eye has danced to see 

That banner in the sky. ibid. 



362 LOWELL. 

Nail to the mast her holy flag, 

Set every threadbare sail, 
And give her to the God of storms, 
The lightning and the gale. 

A Metrical Essctfr. 
Yes, child of suffering, thou mayst well be sure, 
He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor ! 

Urania. 
And, when you stick on conversation's burrs, 
Don't strew your pathway with, those dreadful 
urs. Ibid. 

You think they are crusaders, sent 

From some infernal clime, 
To pluck the eyes of Sentiment, 

And dock the tail of Rhyme, 
To crack the voice of Melody, 

And break the legs of Time. 

The Music- Grinders. 



JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. 

And what is so rare as a day in June ? 

Then, if ever, come perfect days ; 
Then Heaven tries the earth if it be in time, 

And over it softly her warm ear lays. 

The Vision of Sir Laurifal. 
This child is not mine as the first was, 

I cannot sing it to rest, 



KEY. 363 

I cannot lift it up fatherly 

And bless it upon my breast ; The Changeling. 

Yet it lies in my little one's cradle 

And sits in my little one's chair, 
And the light of the heaven she 's gone to 

Transfigures its golden hair. Ibid. 

To win the secret of a weed's plain heart. 

Sonnet xxv. 
Earth's noblest thing, a woman perfected. Irene. 

Truth for ever on the scaffold, Wrong for ever on 
the throne. The Present Crisis. 

Before man made us citizens, great Nature made 
us men. The Capture. 



F. S. KEY. 1779-1843. 
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved 

us a nation ! 
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just, 
Ami this be our motto, " In God is our trust ; " 
And the star-spangled banner, long may it 

wave 
O'er the land of the free and the home of the 

brave ! The Star-spangled Banner. 



364 GREENE. — UELAND. — CRANCH. 



ALBEET G. GEEENE. 
Old Grimes is dead ; that good old man, 

We ne'er shall see him more : 
He used to wear a long black coat, 

All buttoned down before. Old Grimes 



JOHN LOUIS UHLAND. 
Take, boatman, thrice thy fee ; 
Take, — I give it willingly ; 
For, invisible to thee, 
Spirits twain have crossed with me. 

The Passage. 



CHEISTOPHEK P. CEANCH. 
Thought is deeper than all speech ; 
Feeling deeper than all thought ; 
Souls to souls can never teach 

What unto themselves was taught. 

Stanzas. 



CYRIL TOURNEUR. 

A drunkard clasp his teeth, and not undo 'em 
To suffer wet damnation to run through 'em. 

The Revenger's Tragedy. Act iii. Sc. 1, 



BARRETT. — S TEERS. 365 

EATON STANNARD BARRETT. 1820. 

Not she with trait'rous kiss her Master stung, 
Not she denied him with unfaithful tongue ; 
She, when apostles fled, could danger brave, 
Last at his cross, and earliest at his grave. 

Woman. 



MISS FANNY STEERS. 
The last link is broken 

That bound me to thee, 
And the words thou hast spoken 

Have rendered me free. Song 

From "The Universal Songster" Vol. 2, p. 86. 
By Miss Wrother. 
Hope tells a nattering tale, 

Delusive, vain, and hollow, 
Ah let not Hope prevail, 
Lest disappointment follow. 

From the same, Vol. 1, p. 320.* 
Hope told a nattering tale, 

That Joy would soon return ; 
Ah, nought my sighs avail. 
For love is doomed to mourn. 
* Air by Giovanni Paisiello, (1741-1816). 



366 2 KEMP IS. — RABELAIS. 

THOMAS A KEMPIS. . 1380-1471. 

Mail proposes, but God disposes.* 

Imitation of Christ. Booh i. Ch. 19. 

And when he is out of sight, quickly also is he 
out of mind. Ibid. Book i. Ch. 23. 

Of two evils, the less is always to be chosen. 

Ibid. Book hi. Ch. 12. 



FRAXCIS RABELAIS. 1483-1553. 
To return to our muttons.t Book i. Ch. 1. Note 2. 

To driuk no more than a sponge. Book i. Clu 5. 

Appetite comes with eating, says Angeston. ibid. 

By robbing Peter he paid Paul, . ... and 
hoped to catch larks if ever the heavens should 
fall. Ibid. 

I '11 go his halves. Book iv. Ch. 23. 



* This expression is of much greater antiquity; it appears 
in the Chronicle of Battel Abbey, page 27, (Lower's Transla- 
tion,) and in Piers Ploughman's Vision, line 13994. 

A man's heart deviseth his way; but the Lord directeth his 
steps. Proverbs xvi. 9. 

t "Eevenons a nos moutons," a proverb taken from the old 
French Farce of Pierre Patelin. 



BE CERVANTES.— HOBBES. 367 

The Devil was sick, the Devil a monk would be ; 
The Devil was well, the Devil a monk was he. 

Book iv. Ch. 24. 



MIGUEL DE CERVANTES. 1547-1616. 

Every one is the son of his own works. 

Don Quixote. Part i. Book iv. Ch. 20 
I would do what I pleased, and doing what 1 
pleased, I should have my will, and having my 
will, I should be contented ; and when one is con- 
tented, there is no more to be desired ; and when 
there is no more to be desired, there is an end of 
it. Ibid. Ch. 23. 

Every one is as God made him, and oftentimes 
a great deal worse. Part ii. Ch. 4. 

Now blessings light on him that first invented 
sleep ! it covers a man all over, thoughts and all, 
like a cloak ; it is meat for the hungry, drink for 
the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for the hot. 

Part ii. Ch. 67. 
Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear 
it should get blunted. 

The Little Gypsy. (La Gitanilla } 



THOMAS HOBBES. 1588-1679. 
For words are wise men's counters, tln-y do but 
reckon by them ; but they are the money of fools. 
The Leviathan. Part i. Ch. 4, 



! 68 SIDNE Y.-HO OKER. 



SIR PHILIP SIDNEY. 1554-1586. 

He cometh unto you with a tale which holdeth 
children from play, and old men from the chim- 
1 1 ey-corner. The Defence of Poesy. 

I never heard the old song of Percy and Doug- 
lass, that I found not my heart moved more than 
with a trumpet. Ibid. 

There is no man suddenly either excellently 
good, or extremely evil.* Arcadia. Book i. 

They. are never alone that are accompanied 
with noble thoughts. Ibid. 



RICHARD HOOKER. 1553-1600. 
Of Law there can be no less acknowledged, 
than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice 
the harmony of the world : all things in heaven 
and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling 
her care, and the greatest as not exempted from 
her power. Ecclesiastical Polity. Book i. 

* There is a method in man's wickedness, 
It grows up by degrees. — Beaumont and Flktchkk. 

A King and no King. Act v. Sc. 4. 



369 



FRANCIS BACON. 1561-1626. 
He that hath a wife and children hath given 
hostages to fortune, for they are impediments to 
great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. 

Essay viii. Of Marriage and Single Life. 
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swal- 
lowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. 
Essay 1. Of Studies. 
Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready 
man, and writing an exact man. Ibid. 

Histories make men wise, poets, witty ; the 
mathematics, subtile ; natural philosophy, deep ; 
moral, grave ; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. 

Ibid. 

I hold every man a debtor to his profession ; 
from the which as men of course do seek to re- 
ceive countenance and profit, so ought they of 
duty to endeavor themselves by way of amends 
to be a help and ornament thereunto. 

The Elements of the Com. Law of Eng. Preface. 

Knowledge is power. — Nam et ipsa scientia 
potestas est. Meditationes Sacrce. De Haresibus. 

Come home to men's business and bosoms. 

Dedication to the Essays. Ed. 162-3. 

No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon 
the vantage-ground of truth, Of Truth, 

24 



370 COKE. 

"When yon wander, as yon often delight to do, 
yon wander indeed, and give never such satisfac- 
tion as the curious time requires. This is not 
caused by any natural defect, but first for want 
of election, when you, having a large and fruit- 
fid mind, should not so much labor what to 
speak, as to find what to leave unspoken. Rich 
soils are often to be weeded. 

Letter of Expostulation to Coke. 

The sun though it passes through dirty places, 
yet remains as pure as before. 

Advancement of Learning. Book ii. Ch. 2. 



SIR EDWARD COKE. 1551-1632. 

For a man's house is his castle, et domas sua 
caique tutissimum refugium* 

Third Institute. Page 162. 

The house of every one is to him as his castle 
and fortress, as well for his defence against injury 
and violence, as for his repose. 

Semnyne's Case, 5 Rep. 91. 

They (corporations) cannot commit trespass 
nor be outlawed nor excommunicate, for they 
have no souls. 

Case of Sutton's Hospital, 10 Rep. p. 32. 
* Quoted from the Pandects, Lib. ii. tit. iv. Be in Jus vocando. 



WALTOX, — MILTON. 871 



IZAAK ^YALTON. 1593-1683. 
Angling is somewhat like Poetry, men are to 
be born SO. The Complete Angler. Part i. Ch. 1. 

TTe may say of angling as Dr. Boteler said of 
strawberries : " Doubtless God could have made 
a better berry, but doubtless God never did : " 
and so, if I might be judge, God never did make 
a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than 
angling. Ibid. Pan i. Ch. 5. 

Thus use your frog : put your hook, I mean 
the arming wire, through his mouth, and out at 
his gills, and then with a fine needle and silk sew 
the upper part of his leg with only one stitch to 
the arming wire of your hook, or tie the frog's leg 
above the upper joint to the armed wire ; and in 
so doing use him as though you loved him. Ibid 



JOHN MILTON. 1608-1674. 
Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any out- 
ward touch as the sunbeam. 

The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce. 
A poet soaring in the high reason of his fancies, 
with his garland and singing robes about him. 

The Reason of Church Government. Book ii. 



872 MILTON. 

By labor and intent study (which I take to be 
my portion in this lile) joined with the strong pro- 
pensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something 
so written to aftertimes, as they should not will- 
ingly let it die. 

The Reason of Church Government. Book ii. 

Beholding the bright countenance of truth in 
the quiet and still air of delightful studies. Ibid 



He who would not be frustrate of his hope to 
write well hereafter in laudable things, ought him- 
self to be a true poem. Apology for Smectymnuu*. 



I shall detain you no longer in the demonstra- 
tion of what we should not do. but strait conduct 
ye to a hill-side, where I will point ye out the 
right path of a virtuous and noble education ; 
laborious indeed at the first ascent, but else so 
smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect, and 
melodious sounds on every side, that the harp of 
Orpheus was not more charming. 

Tract of Education. 

In those vernal seasons of the year, when the 
air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and 
sullenness against Nature not to go out and see 
her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with 
heaven and earth. ibid 



MILTON. 373 

Enflamed with the study of learning and the 
admiration of virtue ; stirred up with high hopes 
of living to he brave men and worthy patriots, 
dear to God, and famous to all ages. 

Tract of Education. 



As good almost kill a Man, as kill a good 
Book ; who kills a Man kills a reasonable crea- 
ture, God's Image ; but he who destroys a good 
Book kills reason itself. Areopagitica. 

A good Book is the precious life-blood of a 
master-spirit embalmed and treasured up on pur- 
pose to a life beyond life. Ibid. 

Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puis- 
sant nation rousing herself like a strong man after 
sleep, and shaking her invincible locks : methinks 
I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, 
and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid- 
day beam. Ibid. 

By this time, like one who had set out on his 
way by night, and travelled through a Region of 
smooth and idle Dreams, our History now arrives 
on the Confines, where daylight and truth meet 
us with a clear dawn, representing to our view, 
though at far distance, true colors and shapes. 

History of England. Book i. ad Jin. 



374 SELDEN. — FULLER. 

For such kind of borrowing as this, if it be not 
bettered by the borrower, among good authors is 
accounted Plagiare. Iconoclastes xxiv. ad Jin. 



JOHN SELDEN. 1584-1654. 

Old friends are best. King James used to call 

for his old shoes ; they were easiest for his feet. 

Table lalk. Friends. 

Commonly we say a judgment falls upon a mau 

for something in him we cannot abide. Judgments. 

Syllables govern the world. Power. 



THOMAS FULLER. 1608-1661. 
But our captain counts the image of God 
nevertheless his image, cut in ebony as if done in 
ivory. Holy State. The Good Sea- Captain. 

Their heads sometimes so little, that there is 
no more room for wit; sometimes so long, that 
there is no wit for so much room. 

Ibid. Of Natural Focls, 
They that marry ancient people merely in ex- 
pectation to bury them, hang themselves in hope 
that one will come and cut the halter. 

Ibid. Of Marriage. 



SA L TO UN. — NE WTON. 375 

To smell to a turf of fresh earth is wholesome 
for the body ; no less are thoughts of mortality 
cordial to the soul. Holy State. The Virtuous Lady. 

Learning hath gained most by those books by 
which the printers have lost. ibid. Of Books. 

Often the cockloft is empty, in those which 
Nature hath built many stories high. 

Andronicus. Ad. Jin. 1. 



ANDREW FLETCHER OF SALTOUN. 1653-1716. 

I knew a very wise man that believed that, if 
a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he 
need not care who should make the laws of a 
nation. 

Letter to the Marquis of Montrose, the Earl of Rothes, etc. 



ISAAC XEWTON. 1642-1727. 
I seem to have been only like a boy playing on 
the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and 
then finding a smoother pebble, or a prettier shell 
than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay 
all undiscovered before me. 

Turner's Collections relative to the Town of Grantham. 



376 RUMB OLD. — ROCHEFOUCAULD. 

RICHARD RUMBOLD. 

On the Scaffold. 1685 * 
I never could believe that Providence had sent 
a few men into the world, ready hooted and spur- 
red to ride, and millions ready saddled and bridled 
to be ridden. 



FRANCIS DUC DE ROCHEFOUCAULD. 

1613-1680. 

Hypocrisy is a sort of homage that vice pays to 
virtue. Maxim ccxvii. 



HENRY ST. JOHN, VISCOUNT BOLINGBROKE. 

1672-1751. 

I have read somewhere or other, in Dionysius 
of Halicarnassus, I think, that History is Philoso- 
phy teaching by examples.! 

On the Study and Use of History. Letter 2. 

* Macaulay. History of England. 

t Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Ars Rhet. xi. 2 (p. 398, R.), 
says: UaLdeia upa iariv rj h)~ev%LC tuv q&civ tovto aal 
9ovKvdi<)r]c tome teyeiv, mpi ioropiac TJyuv • brt nal iaropia 
ipiAoaoipia earlv en Ttapaday/xuruv, quoting Thuc. I. 22. 



LE SAGE. — FRANKLIN. 377 



ALAIN-RENE. LE SAGE. 1688-1747. 

I wish you all sorts of prosperity with a little 
more taste. Gil Bias. Book vii. Ch. 4. 



BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. 1706-1790. 

God helps them that help themselves. 

Poor Richard. 

Dost thou love life, then do not squander time, 

for that is the stuff life is made of. Jbid. 

Three removes are as bad as a fire. ibid. 

Vessels large may venture more, 

But little boats should keep near shore. Ibid. 

He has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle. Ibid. 

When I see a merchant over-polite to his cus- 
tomers, begging them to take a little brandy and 
tin-owing his goods on the counter, thinks T, that 
man has an axe to grind. ibid. 

Here Skugg 
Lies snug, 
As a bug 
In a rug. 
From a Letter to Miss Georgiana Shipley, on 
the Loss of her American Squirrel. 



378 STEELE. — BLACKS T ONE.— WALP OLE. 



SIR RICHARD STEELE. 1671-1729. 

(Lady Elizabeth Hastings.) Though her mien 
carries much more invitation than command, to 
behold her is an immediate check to loose be- 
havior ; to love her was a liberal education.* 

The Taller. No. 49. 



SIR WILLIAM BLACKSTONE. 1723-1780. 

The royal navy of England hath ever been its 
greatest defence and ornament ; it is its ancient 
and natural strength, — the floating bulwark of 
our island. Commentaries. Vol. i. p. 418. 



SIR ROBERT WALPOLE. 1674-1746. , 

Flowery oratory he despised. He ascribed to 
the interested views of themselves or their rela- 
tives, the declarations of pretended patriots, of 
whom he said, All those men have their price, t 

From Coxe's Memoirs of Wul/iole. Vol. iv. p. 369. 

* Leigh Hunt incorrectly ascribes the expression, to love 
her was a liberal education, to Cougreve. 

t The political axiom, All men have their price, is com- 
monly ascribed to Walpole. 



P WELL. — S TERNE. 379 

SIR JOHN POWELL. 1801. 

Let us consider the reason of the case. For 
nothing is law that is not reason. 

Coggs vs. Bernard, 2 Ld. Raym. 91 1. 



LAURENCE STERNE. 1713-1768. 
Go, poor devil, get thee gone ; why should I hurt 
thee ? This world surely is wide enough to hold 
both thee and me. 

Tristram Shandy. Vol. li. Ch. xii. 
Great wits jump* Vol. iii. Ch. ix. 

Our armies swore terribly in Flanders, cried 
my uncle Toby, — but nothing to this. 

Vol. iii. Ch. xi. 

The accushig spirit, which flew up to heaven's 
chancery with the oath, blushed as he gave it in ; 
and the recording angel, as he wrote it down, 
dropped a tear upon the word and blotted it out 
forever. Vol. vi. Ch. viii. 

" They order," said I, " this matter better in 
France." Sentimental Journey. Page 1 

I pity the man who can travel from Dan Vt 
Beersheba, and cry, 'T is all barren. 

Ibid. In the Street Ca'ais 

* A proverbial phrase. 



380 BURKE. 

Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, Slavery, said 
I, still thou art a bitter draught. 

Ibid. The Passport. The Hotel at Paris. 
The iron entered his soul.* 

Ibid. The Captive. Puris. 
God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.f 

Ibid. Maria. 



EDMUND BURKE, t 1730-1797. 
The swinish multitude. On the French Revolution. 

It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I 
saw the Queen of France, then the Dauphiness, 
at Versailles ; and surely never lighted on this 
orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more 
delightful vision. 

I saw her just above the horizon, decorating 
and cheering the elevated sphere she just began 
to move in ; glittering like the morning star, full 

of life, and splendor, and joy. Little did 

I dream that I should have lived to see such dis- 

* Psalm cv. 18. Book of Common Prayer. 

t Dieu mesure le froid a la brebis tondue. — Henri Es- 
tienne. Premices, etc., p. 47, a collection of Proverbs, 
published in 1594. 

To a close shorn sheep God gives wind by measure. 

Herbert. Jacula Prudenium. 

% Rev. Robert Hall in his Apology for the Freedom of the 
Press, says of Mr. Burke, " His imperial fancy has laid all 
nature under tribute, and has collected riches from every 
scene of the creation and every walk of art." 



BURKE. 381 

asters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, 
in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers. 1 
thought ten thousand swords must have leaped 
from their scabbards to avenge even a look that 
threatened her with insult. But the age of chiv- 
alry is gone. On the French Revolution. 

The cheap defence of nations, the nurse of 
manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone. 

Ibid. 
Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its 

Ibid. 



Kings will be tyrants from policy when subjects 
are rebels from principle. Ibid. 

You had that action and counteraction, which 
in the natural and in the political world, from the 
reciprocal struggle of discordant powers, draws 
out the harmony of the universe.* Ibid. 

The worthy gentleman who has been snatched 
from us at the moment of the election, and in the 
middle of the contest, whilst his desires were as 
warm, and his hopes as eager as ours, has feelingly 



* Mr. Breen, in his Modern English Literature, say?: 
' This remarkable thought, Alison, the historian, has turned 
to good account; it occurs so often in his disquisitions, that 
he seems to have made it the staple of all wisdom and the 
basis of everv truth." 



382 BURKE. 

told us what shadows we are, and what shadows we 
pursue. Speech at Bristol on declining the Poll. 1780. 

There is, however, a limit at which forbearance 
ceases to be a virtue. The Present State of the Nation. 

Illustrious predecessor. 

Thoughts on the Present Discontents. 

When bad men combine, the good must asso- 
ciate ; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied 
sacrifice, in a contemptible struggle. Ibid. 

All those instances to be found in history, 
whether real or fabulous, of a doubtful public 
spirit, at which morality is perplexed, reason is 
staggered, and from which affrighted nature re- 
coils, are their chosen and almost sole examples 
for the instruction of youth. 

First Letter on a Regicide Peace. 

I w T ould rather sleep in the corner of a little 
country churchyard than in the tomb of all the 
CapuletS. Letter to Matthew Smith. 

It has all the contortions of the sybil without 
the inspiration.* Prior's Life of Burke. 

* " When Croft's Lift of Dr. Young was spoken of as a good 
imitation of Dr. Johnson's style, ' Xo, no,' said he, 'it is not 
a good imitation of Johnson; it has all his pomp without his 
force; it has all the nodosities of the oak without its strength; 
it has all the contortions of the sybil without the inspiration.' " 



HURD. — HENR T. - PAINE. 383 

All government, indeed every human benefit 
and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent 
act, is founded on compromise and barter. 

Speech on Conciliation with America. 



RICHARD HURD. 1720-1808. 

In this awfully stupendous manner, at which 
reason stands aghast, and faith herself is half 
confounded, was the grace of God to man at 
length manifested. Sermons. Vol. ii. p. 287 



PATRICK HENRY. 1736-1799. 
Ca3sar had his Brutus — Charles the First, his 
Cromwell — and George the Third — (" Trea- 
son ! " cried the speaker) — may profit by their 
exa?nple. If this be treason, make the most 
of it. Speech, 1765. " 

Give me Liberty, or give me deatli ! 

Speech, March, 1775. 



THOMAS PAIXE. 1737-1809. 

And the final event to himself (Mr. Burke) 
has been that, as he rose like a rocket, he fell 
like the Stick. Letter to the Addresseis 



384 , FOUCHE. — MACKINTOSH. 

These are the times that try men's souls. 

The Crisis. No 1. 
The sublime and the ridiculous are often so 
nearly related, that it is difficult to class them 
separately. One step above the sublime makes 
the ridiculous, and one step above the ridiculous 
makes the sublime again.* 

Age of Reason. Part ii. ad Jin. {note.) 



JOSEPH FOUCIIE. 

17G3-18^0. 

It is more than a crime, it is a political fault ; | 
words which I record because they have been 
repeated and attributed to others. 

Memoirs of Fourhe. 



SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH. 
17G5-1832. 

The commons, faithful to their system, remained 
hi a wise and masterly inactivity. 

Vindicice Gallicw. 



* Probably the original (if Napoleon's celebrated mot, " I Hi 
sublime an ridicule ii n'y a qu'un pas." 

■( Commonly quoted, " It is worse than a crime, it is a 
blunder," and attributed to Tallcvrand. 



LEE. — PINCKNE Y. — R OLAND. 385 



HENRY LEE. 

1756-1818. 
To the memory of the Man, first in war, first 
in peace, and first in the hearts of his fellow- 
citizens.* 

From the Resolutions presented to the House of Representa- 
tives, on the Death of General Washington, December, 
1793. Marshall's Life of Washington. 



CHARLES COTESWORTH PINCKNEY. 
1746-1825. 
Millions for defence, but not one cent for trib- 
ute. When Ambassador to the French Republic, 1796. 



MADAME ROLAND. 

1754-1793. 
O liberty ! liberty ! how many crimes are com- 
mitted in thy name. 

* To the memory of the Man, first in war, first in peace, 
and first in the hearts of his countrymen. Eulogy delivered by 
Gen. Lee, Dec. 20, 179SJ. Memoirs of Lee. 
25 



386 



ROBERT EMMET. 1780-1803. 
Let there be no inscription upon my tomb ; let 
no man write my epitaph : no man can write my 
epitaph. 

Speech on his Trial and Conviction for High 
Treason, September, 1803. 



DANIEL WEBSTER. 1782-1852. 

Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I 
give ray hand and my heart to this vote.* 

Eulogy on Adams and Jefferson, Aug. 2, 1826. 
Independence now and Independence forever. t 

Ibid. 
"When my eyes shall be turned to behold for 
the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see 
him shining on the broken and dishonored frag- 
ments of a once glorious Union ; on States dis- 

* Mr. Adams, describing a conversation with Jonathan 
Sewall, in 1774, says, " I answered, that the die was now 
cast ; I had passed the Rubicon. Swim or sink, live or die, 
survive or perish with my country, was my unalterable 
determination." Adams' Works, vol. iv. 

t Mr. Webster says of Mr. Adams, "on the day of his 
death, hearing the noise of bells and cannon he asked the 
occasion. On being reminded that it was ' Independent Day,' 
he replied, ' Independence forever.' " Webster s Works, vol. 
i. p. 150. 



WEBSTER. 387 

severed, discordant, belligerent ; on a land rent 
with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fra- 
ternal blood. Second Speech on Foot's Resolution. 

Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and 
inseparable. Ibid. 

We wish that this column, rising towards heaven 
among the pointed spires of so many temples dedi- 
cated to God, may contribute also to produce, in 
all minds, a pious feeling of dependence and grat- 
itude. TVe wish, finally, that the last object to 
the sight of him who leaves his native shore, and 
the first to gladden his who revisits it, may be 
something which shall remind him of the liberty 
and the glory of his country. Let it rise ! let it 
rise, till it meet the sun in his coming ; let the 
earliest light of the morning gild it, and the part- 
ing day linger and play on its summit. 

Address on Laying the Corner-Stone of the 
Bunker Hill Monument, 18*" 

He smote the rock of the national resour 
and abundant streams of revenue gushed foru 
He touched the dead corpse of Public Credit, and 
it sprung upon its feet.* 

Speech on Hamilton, March, 1831. 

* He it was that first gave to the law the air of a science, 
tie fmnd it a skeleton, and clothed it with life, color, and 
complexion; he embraced the cold statue, and by his touch 
it grew intD youth, health, and beauty. 

Barry Yelyeetox, (Lord Avonmore) <>n Bhickstone- 



388 WEBSTER. 

On this question of principle, while actual suf- 
fering was yet afar off, they (the Colonies) raised 
their flag against a power, to which, for purposes 
of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome, in the 
height of her glory, is not to be compared ; a 
power which .has dotted over the surface of the 
whole globe with her possessions and military 
posts, whose morning-drum beat, following the 
sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles 
the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain 
of the martial oirs of England.* 

Speech, May 7, 1834. 
Sea of up-turned faces.f Speech, September 30, 1842. 

* Why should the brave Spanish soldier brag the sun 
never sets in the Spanish dominions, but ever shineth on 
one part or other we have conquered for our king. — Capt. 
John Smith. "Advertisements for the Unexperienced" §c. Coll. 
Mass. Uht. Soc. 3d Ser. Vol. iii. p. 49. 

I am called 
The richest monarch in the Christian world; 
The sun in my dominions never sets. 
Ich heisse 
Der reichste Mann in der getauften Welt ; 
Die Sonne geht in meinem Staat nicht unter. 

Schiller. Don Karlos, Act i. Sc. 6. 
The stake I play for is immense — I will continue in my 
own dynasty the family system of the Bourbons, and unite 
Spain forever to the destinies of France. Remember that the 
sun never sets on the immense empire of Charles V. (Xapo- 
leon, February, 1807). 

Walter Scott. Life of Nnpcleon. 
t This phrase, commonly supposed to have originated with 
Mr. Webster, is from Rob Roy, vol. i. ch. 20. 



BR UGHA1I. — CEO A TE. — MA CA ULA Y. 389 

LORD BROUGHAM. 

Let the soldier be abroad if he will, he can do 
nothing in this age. There is another personage, 
a personage less imposing in the eyes of some, per- 
haps insignificant. The school-master is abroad, 
and I trust to him, armed with his primer against 
the soldier in full military array. 

Speech, January 29, 1828. 

WILLIAM L. MARCY. 1786-1857. 

They see nothing wrong in the rule that to the 
victors belong the spoils of the enemy. 

Speech in the United States Senate, January, 1832. 



RUFUS CHOATE. 1799-1859. 

There was a State without King or nobles ; 

there was a church without a Bishop ; there was 

a people governed by grave magistrates which it 

had selected, and equal laws which it had framed. 

Speech before the New England Society, New York, 

December 22, 1843. 



THOMAS B. MACAULAY. 1800-1859. 
She (the Roman Catholic Church) may still 
exist hi undiminished vigor, when some traveller 
from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast 



390 MAC A CLAY. 

solitude, lake his stand on a broken arch of Lon- 
don Bridge to sketch the rams of St. Paul";.* 

Review o/Ranke's History of the Poj>es. 

* The same image was employed by Macaulay in 1824. in 
the concluding paragraph of a review or' Mitr'ord"; Gi 
'• When travellers from some distant region >hall in vain 
labor to decipher on some mouldering pedestal the name of 
our proudest chief, shall hear savage hymns, chanted over 
some misshapen idol over the ruined dome of our proud 
temple." 

Who knows but that hereafter some traveller like myself 
will sit down upon the banks of the Seine, the Thames or 
the Zuyder Zee, where now in the tumult of enjoyment, the 
heart and the eyes are too slow to take in the multitude of 
sensations. Who knows but he will >it down solitary amid 
silent ruins, and weep a people inurned and their greatness 
changed into an empty name. Vulney's Ruim, Ch. 2. 

At last some curious traveller from Lima will visit England, 
and give a description of the ruins of St- Pauls, like the edi- 
tions of Baalb c and Palmyra, 

H"I:ace Walpole. Letter to Mason, Nov. -24. 1774. 

Where now is Britain ? 



Even as the savage sits upon the stone 
That marks where stood her capitols. and hears 
The bittern booming in the weeds, he shrinks 
From the dismaying solitude. 

Hkhst Kirke White. Time. 
In the firm expectation, that when London shall be an 
habitation of bittern-, when St. Paul and Westminster Abbey 
shall stand, shapeless and nameless ruins in the midst of an 
unpeopled marsh; when the piers of Waterloo Bridge shall 
become the nuclei of islets of reeds and osiers and cast tie 
jagged shadows of their broken arches on the solitary 
■ stream, some transatlantic commentator will be weighing 
in the scales of some new and now unimagined system of 
criticism the respective merits of the Bells and the Fudges, 
and their historians.f— Shelley. Dedication to Peter Bell. 



in VIXG. — PARKER. 391 

The Puritans hated bearbaiting, not because it 
gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleas- 
ure to the spectators.* 

History of England. Vol. i. Ch. 2. 



WASHINGTON IRVING. 1783-1859. 

Free-livers on a small scale ; Avho are prodigal 
within the compass of a guinea. 

The Stout Gentleman. 
The Almighty Dollar. The Creole Village. 



MARTYN PARKER. 

Ye gentlemen of England 
That live at home at ease, 

Ah ! little do you think upon 
The dangers of the seas. 

* Even bearbaiting was esteemed heathenish and unchris- 
tian; the sport of it, not the inhumanity, gave offence. 

Hujie. History of England. Vol. i. Ch. 62 



392 MIS CELL AN E US. 

MISCELLANEOUS. 



" A Cadmean victory" Greek Proverb. 

%v[Xjj.iayovTJiV Se rg vav/xa^ir], KaSjJXLq ns vlktj 
Totcrt 't'ojKateiJcrt iyeuero. Ferod. i. 166. 

A Cadmean victory was one in which the vic- 
tors suffered as much as their enemies, so called 
from the victory of the Thehans (then called Cad- 
means) over the celehrated Seven, which was 
avenged .shortly afterwards by the descendants of 
the vanquished, the Epigoni. 



" Fools that do not know hoio much more the 
half is than the whole" 

N^7rtof ouSe IcaaLV oaw ttXIov y/urrv iravro^. 

Hesiod. Works and Days, v. 40. 



" To leave no ston£ unturned." 

IWto. Kivrjdai Tzirpov Euripides, Heradid. 1002. 

This may be traced to a response of the Del- 
phic Oracle, given to Polycrates, as the best 
means ot finding a treasure buried by Xerxes's 
general, Mardouius, on the field of Plataea. The 
Oracle replied, Udvra Xldov Kivei, Turn every stone. 
Corp. Parvemiogr. Grtnc. i. p. 146. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 393 

" Hie blood of the Martyrs is the seed of the 
Church." 
Plures efficimur, quoties metimur a vobis ; se- 
men est sanguis Christianorum." 

Teetulliax. Apologet., c. 50 

" Every man is the architect of his own fortune." 
Sed res docuit id verum esse quod in carmin- 

ibus Appius ait, " Fabrum esse sua? quemque 

fortunae." 

Paeudo-Salhtst. Epist. de Rep. Ordin. ii. 1. 
This Appius Claudius Caucus was the earliest 

Eoman writer, whose name has come down to us, 

and in his censorship, B. C. 3 1 2, began the Appian 

Way from Rome to Capua. 



"Ccesar's wife should be above suspicion." 
Csesar was asked why he had divorced his wife. 
" Because," said he, " I would have the chastity 
of my wife clear even of suspicion." 

Plutarch. Vit. Cces. c. 10. 



" Where the shoe pinches." 
In the life of " iEmilius Paulus," Plutarch re- 
lates the story of a Roman being divorced from 
his wife. " This person be*ing highly blamed by 
his friends, who demanded, — was she not chaste : 
was she not fair ? holding out his shoe asked them 



394 MIS CELL AN E US. 

whether it was not new ? and well made ? Yet, 
added he, none of you can tell where it pinches 
me." 

" Appeal from Philip drunk to Philip sober"* 

Inserit se tantis viris mulier alienigeni san- 
guinis : quae a Philippo rege temulento immerenter 
damnata, Provocarein ad Philippum. inquit, sed 
sobrium. Vol. Maximus. Lib. vi. cap. 2. 

" When at Rome, do as the Romans do." . 

St. Augustine Avas in the habit of dining upon 
Saturday as upon Sunday ; but being puzzled 
with tbe different practices then prevailing, (for 
they had begun to fast at Rome on Saturday,) 
consulted St. Ambrose on the subject. Now at 
Milan they did not fast on Saturday, and the 
answer of the Milan saint was this : — 

" When I am here, I do not fast on Saturday ; 
when at Rome, I do fast on Saturday." 

'• Quando hie sum, non jejuno Sabbato : quando 
Romae sum, jejuno Sabbato." 

St. Augdstine. Epistle xxxvi. to Casulamis. 

When they are at Rome, they do there as 
they see done. 

Burton. Anatomy of Melancholy. Part iii. Sec. 4, 
Mem. 2, Subs. 1. 

* Refers to Philip of Macedon. 



M /S CELL AXE US. 395 

" The sinews of war." 
JBschines (Adv. Ctesiph. eh. 53) ascribes to 
Demosthenes the expression v— o-kr\xqra.i to. i eipa 
rail' irpayfidrutv, u the sinews of affairs are cut." 
Diogenes Laertius, in his Life of Bion, (lib. iv. 
c. 7. § 3), represents that philosopher as saying 
to:- — Xovtov eucu veupa 7rpa.yftjd.Twv, " that riches 
were the sinews of affairs," or, as the phrase may 
mean, " of the State." Referring perhaps to 
this maxim of Bion. Plutarch says in his Life 
of Cleomenes (c. 27). " He who first called 
money the sinews of the State, seems to have 
said this with special reference to war." Accord- 
ingly, we find money called expressly to. vevpa 
tov TToXejizv. " the sinews of war," in Libanius, 
Orat. xlvi. (vol. ii. p. 477. ed. Reiske), and by 
the Scholiast on Pindar. Olyinp. i. 4, comp. Pho- 
tius, Lex. s. v. Meyavopos ttXovtov. So Cicero, 
Philipp. v. 2, '" nervos belli, infinitam pecuniam." 



"Begging the question." 
This is a common logical fallacy petitio prinei- 
pii : and the first explanation of the phrase is to 
be found in Aristotle"s Topica, yiii. 13, where the 
five ways of begging the question are set forth. 
The earliest English work in which the expres- 
sion is found is "the Arte of Logike plainb'e set 
forth in our English Tongue, 8?c. 158-4."' 



396 MIS CELLANEO US. 

u Old wood to burn ! Old wine to drink ! Old 
friends to trust ! Old authors to read ! " * 
Alonso of Aragon was wont to say, in commen- 
dation of age, that age appeared to be best in 
these four things. Melchior. Floresta Espanda 
de Apoiltegmas o sentencias, <J-c. ii. 1. 20. 



" A Rowland for an Oliver." 

These were two of the most famous in the list 
of Charlemagne's twelve peers ; and their exploits 
are rendered so ridiculously and equally extrava- 
gant by the old romancers, that from thence arose 
that saying amongst our plain and sensible ances- 
tors of giving one a " Rowland for his Oliver," to 
signify the matching one incredible lie with an- 
other. Thomas Warburton. 

It is unseasonable and unwholesome in all 
months that have not an R. in their name to eat 
an oyster. Butler. Dyet's Dry Dinner. 1500. 

" Hobsorfs Choice" 
Tobias Hobson was the first man in England 
that let out hackney horses. — "When a man came 
for a horse, he was led into the stable, where there 

* I love even-thing that 's old. Old friends, old times, 
old manners, old books, old wine. 

Goldsmith. She Stoops to Conquer. Act i. Sc. 1. 



MIS CELL AXE OUS. 397 

was a great choice, but he obliged him to take the 
horse which stood next to the stable-door ; so that 
every customer was alike well served according 
to his chance, from whence it became a proverb, 
when what ought to be your election was forced 
upon you, to say " Hobson's Choice." 

Spectator, No. -509. 

" All is lost save honor." 

It was from the imperial camp near Pavia that 
Francis the First, before leaving for Pizzighet- 
tone. wrote to his mother the memorable letter, 
which, thanks to tradition, has become altered to 
the form of this sublime laconism : " Madame 
tout est perdu fors rhonneur." 

The true expression is, " Madame pour vous 
faire savoir comme se porte le reste de mon iu- 
fortune, de toutes choses ne m'est demeure que 
Thonneur et la vie qui est sauve." 

Martin. Histoire de France. Tom. viii. 



" As good as a play.''' 
An exclamation of Charles II. when in Par- 
liament attending the discussion of Lord Koss's 
Divorce Bill.* 

* The King remained in the House while his speech waa 
taken into consideration, a common practice -with him; for 
the debates amused his sated mind, and were sometimes, he 
used to say, as good as a comedy. — M.ycacxay, Rtritic of 
the Life and Writings of Sir William Temple. 



398 MISCELLANEOUS. 

" Die in the last ditch." 
To William of Orange may be ascribed this 
saying. When Buckingham urged the inevitable 
destruction which hung over the United Prov- 
inces, and asked him whether he did not see that 
the commonwealth was ruined, " There is one 
certain means," replied the prince, " by which I 
can be sure never to see my country's ruin — 1 
will die in the last ditch.'" 

Hume. History of England. 1672. 

" No one is a hero to his valet" 
This phrase is commonly attributed to Madame 
de Sevigne, but on the authority of Mad. Aisse 
belongs to Madame Cornuel. 

Lettres, edit. J. Ravenal, 1853. 

Few men are admired by their servants. 

Montaigne. Essais. Book Hi. Ch. 11. 

When Hermodotus in his poems described An- 
tigonus as the son of Helius, (the sun), " my 
valet-de-chambre," said he, " is not aware of 
this." Plutarch. De hide et Osiride,ch. xxiv. 

" La Garde meurt et ne se rend pas." 
This phrase attributed to Cambronne, who was 
made prisoner at Waterloo, was vehemently de- 
nied by him.* It was invented by Rougemont, a 

* When pressed by a pretty woman to repeat the phrase 
he really did use, he replied, " Mafoi, Madame, je ne sais pas 



MIS CELLANE OUS. 399 

prolific author of mots, two days after the battle, 
iii the Independant. 



" Defend me from my friends." 

' The French Ana assign to Marechal Villars 
taking leave of Louis XIV., this aphorism, " De- 
fend me from my friends ; I can defend myself 
from my enemies." 

But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can 

send, 
Save, save, oh save me from the candid friend. 

Canning. The New Morality. 

" Beginning of the end." 

M. Fournier * asserts, on the written authority 
of Talleyrand's brother, that the only breviary 
used by the ex-bishop was L' Improvisateur Fran- 
cais, a compilation of Anecdotes and Bonmots, in 
twenty-one duodecimo volumes. 

Whenever a good thing was wandering about 
in search of a parent, he adopted it ; amongst 
others, C'estTe , commencement de la fin. 

au juste ce que j'ai dit a l'officier Anglais qui me criait de 
me rendre: mais ce qui est certain est qu' il comprenait le 
Francais, et qu' il m'a r£pondu mange." 
* L'Esprit dans P Histoire. 



400 MIS CELL AN E US. 

To shew our simple skill 
This is the true beginning of our end. 

Shakspeare. Midsummer Night's Dream, 
Act v. Sc. 1. 

ik Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts" 
lis n' employent les paroles que pour deguiser 
leur pensees. 

Volt aire. Dialogue xiv. Le Chapon et la Poularde. 
"When Harel wished to put a joke or witticism 
into circulation he was in the habit of connecting 
it with some celebrated name, on the chance of 
reclaiming it if it took. Thus he assigned to 
Talleyrand in the Ndin Jaime the phrase, 
" Speech was given to man to disguise his 
thoughts." Fournier. L'Esprit duns I'Uistoire. 

Where Nature's end of language is declined 
And men talk only to conceal the mind. 

Young. Love of Fame. Satire ii. Line 207. 
The germ of this saying is to be found in 
Jeremy Taylor ; Lloyd, South, Butler, Young, 
and Goldsmith have repeated it after him. 



" Orthodoxy is my doxy. Heterodoxy is another 
man's doxy" 

I have heard frequent use (said the late Lord 
Sandwich, in a debate on the Test Laws), of the 
words Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy ; but I confess 



MIS CELLANE OUS. 401 

myself at a loss to know precisely what they 
mean. " Orthodoxy, my Lord," (said Bishop 
Warburton in a whisper,) " Orthodoxy is my 
doxy, — Heterodoxy is another man's doxy." 

Priestley's Memoirs. Vol. i. p. 372 

" 1 hear a lion in the lobby roar." 
But Titus * said with his uncommon sense, 
When the Exclusion Bill was in suspense, 
I hear a lion in the lobby roar. 

Kev. James Bramston. Art of Politics. 

li Indemnity for the past and security for the 
future," f are now evidently construed into Cey- 
lon and Trinidad. Letter to the Hon. T. Maitland. 

Russell's Memoir of Fox. Vol. iii. p. 845. 

" Steal my thunder." 
DTsraeli says, " the actors refused to perform 
one of John Dennis's tragedies to empty houses, 
but they retained some excellent thunder which 
Dennis had invented ; it rolled one night when 
Dennis was in the pit, and it was applauded. 
Suddenly starting up, he cried to the audience, 

' By , they won't act my tragedy, but they 

Bteal my thunder.' " Calamities of Authors. 

* Col. Titus, in a debate on the Exclusion Bill, January 7, 
1680. 

t Mr. Pitt's phrase. De Quincey. Theological Essays, vol. 
ii. p. 170. 

2(j 



402 MIS CELL AN 'E US. 

From Apophthegms, etc., in Latin, by Erasmus, 
translated by Nicholas Vdall. 1542. 
That same man, that runnith awaie, 
Maie again fight an other claie. 

For those that fly may fight again, 
Which he can never do that 's slain. 

Butllr. Hudibras. Part iii. Canto 3. 

From the Art of Poetry on a New Plan. {Edited 
by Oliver Goldsmith?) Vol. ii. p. 147. Lon- 
don, 1761. 

For he who fights and runs away 
May live to fight another day ; 
But he who is in battle slain 
Can never rise and fight again. 

Sed omissis quidem divinis exhortationibus, ilium mam's 
Graecum versiculum secularis sentential sibi adhibent. Qui 
fugiebat, rursus prceliabitur : nt et rursus forsitan fugiat. 

Tkrtolliah, De Fuga in Persecuiione, c. 10. 
The corresponding Greek, 

'Av^p 6 oevyuv /cat irakiv paxTjcrerm, 
is ascribed to Menander in Diibner's edition of his Fragments 
(appended to Aristophanes in Didot's Bibliotheca Grceca), 
p. 91. 

Qui fuit, pent revenir aussi; 
Qui nieurt, il n'en est pas ainsi. 

Scaerojv (Etat. 1660.) 
Souvent celuy qui demeure 
Est cause de son meschef ; 
Celuy qui fuit de bonne heure 
Peut combattre derechef. 

From the Satyr e Menippee, 1594. 



MIBCELLANE US. 403 

From the Abridgement of the Chronicles of Eng- 
lande, by Eichard Grafton, 1590. "A rule to 
hiowe how many dayes euery moneth in the 
yeare hath." 

Thirty dayes hath Nouember, 
Aprill, June, and September, 
February hath xxviii alone, 
And all the rest have xxxi. 



From the Return from Parnassus. 4to. London. 
1606. 
Thirty days hath September, 
April, June, and November, 
February eight-and-twenty all alone, 
And all the rest have thirty-one ; 
Unless that leap year doth combine, 
And give to February twenty-nine. 



From Song No. 7, Ravenscraffs " Deuteromela," 
1609. 
Nose, nose, nose, nose, 
And who gave thee that jolly red nose ? 

Sinament and Ginger, Nutmegs and Cloves, 
And that gave me my jolly red nose. 



404 MIS CELL AN E US. 

From the Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border. Sit 
Patrick Spens. 
I saw the new moon, late yestreen, 
Wi' the auld moon in her arm. 



From Play ford's Musical Companion, 1687. 
Begone, dull Care, I prithee begone from me ; 
Begone, dull Care, thou and I shall never agree. 

From the New England Primer. 
In Adam's fall 
We sinned all. 



My Book and Heart 
Must never part. 



Verses for Children. 
Now I lay me down to sleep, 
I pray the Lord my soul to keep ; 
If I should die before I wake, 
I pray the Lord my soul to take. 



Martyrdom of Mr. John Rogers. 
His wife with nine small children and one at 
;he breast. 



MIS CELL AN E OUS. 405 

Lines used by John Ball, to encourage the Rebels 
in Wat Tyler's Rebellion. Hume's History of 
England, Vol. I. Chap. 17, Note 8. 

When Adam dolve, and Eve span, 
Who was then the gentleman ? 

From a MSS. of the loth Century in the British 
Museum. Songs and Carols. 
Now bething the, gentilman, 
How Adam dalf and Eve span. 



The same proverb existed in German. Agricola. 
(Prov. No. 264.) 

So Adam reutte, und Eva span 
Wer was da ein eddelman. 

From the Garland, a Collection of Poems, 1721, 
by Mr. Br — st, author of a Copy of Verses 
called "The British Beauties." 

Praise undeserved is Satire in disguise.* 



DYEE. 

[Published in the early part of the reign of George I.] 
And he that will this health deny 
Down among the dead men let him lie. 

* This line is quoted by Pope, in the 1st Epistle of Horace, 
Book ii. — 

" Praise undeserved is Scandal in disguise." 



40 6 MIS CELL AN E US. 

Lines Written in the. Album of David Krieg. 
[Among the collection of Albums in the British Museum.*] 
Virtus sua gloria. 
Think that day lost whose [low] descending sun 
Views from thy hand no noble action clone. 

Your success and happiness 
is sincerely wished by 

Ja. Bobart.t Oxford. 



From Ovid's Metamorphosis, translated by several 
hands and published by Samuel Garth. 2 vols. 
12mo. 1751. Vol. ii. Book 7, Line 20. 

I see the right, and I approve it too, 

Condemn the wrong, and yet the wrong pursue. + 

From the " Prologue written for the Opening of 
the Play-house at New South Wales, Jan. 16, 
1796." 

(Barrington's "New South Wales," p. 152.) 
True patriots all ; for be it understood, 
"We left our country for our country's good. 

* Nichol's Autographs in the British Museum, 
t Jacob Bobart was a son of the celebrated botanist of 
that name ; he died about 1726. 

% Video meliora, proboque; 
Deteriora sequor. 



MIS CELL AN E US. 407 

Proverbial Expressions from the English Poets, 
which are of common origin. 

All that glisters is not gold.* 

Shakspeare. Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 7. 

But all thing, which that shineth as the gold 
Ne is no gold, as I have herd it told. 

Chaucer. Yeoman's Tale. Line 16430, 

Yet gold all is not that doth golden seem. 

Spenser. Faere Queen. Book ii. c. 8. St. 14. 

All as they say that glitters is not gold. 

Dryden. Hind and Pantlier. 
Castles in the air. 

Swift. Duke Grafton's Answer. Broome. Poverty 
and Poetry. Churchill. Epistle to R. Lloyd. 
Shenstone. On Taste. Part ii. Llotd. Epistle 
to Colman. 

Devil take the hindmost. 

Butler. Hvdibras. Part i. c. 2. Line 633. Prior. 
Ode on taking Namur. Pope. Dunciad. Book ii. 
Line 60. Burns. To a Haggis. 

Compare great things with small. 

Virgil. Gcorgics. Book iv. Line 176. Milton. 
Paradise Lost. • Book ii. Line 921. Cowley. 
The Motto. Ticeell. Poem on Hunting. Pope. 
Windsor Forest. 

Gray mare will prove the better horse.f 

Prior. Epilogue to Lucius. 

* This expression was a favorite among the old English 
Poets. 

+ Mr. Macaulay thinks that this proverb originated in the 



408 MISCELLANEOUS. 

The gray mare will be the better horse. 

The Marriage of true Wit and Science. 
Butler. Hudibras. Part ii. c. 2. Line 698. 

Great wits will jump. Sterne. Tristram Shandy. 

Good witts will jumpe. 

Dr. Cougham. Camden Soc. Pub. p. 20. Duke 
or Buckingham. The. Chances. Act v. Sc. 1. 

Ill wind turns none to good. 

Tusser. Moral Reflections on the Wind. 

Not the ill wind which blows none to good. 
Shakspeare. King Henry IV. Part ii. Act v. Sc. 3. 

Ill blows the wind that profits nobody. 

Ibid. King Henry VI. Part iii. Act ii. Sc. 5. 

Look a gift horse in the mouth. 

Butler. Hudibras. Part i. c. 1. Line 490. 
Rabelais. Book i. Ch. 2. Also quoted by St. Jerome. 

• Look ere thou leap, see ere thou go. 

Tusser. Five hundred Points of Good Husbandry. Ch. 57. 

Look before you ere you leap. 

Butler. Hudibras. Part ii. c. 2. Line 502. 

Moon is made of green cheese. Jack Jugler. p. 46. 
Butler. Hudibras. Part ii. c. 3. Line 263. 

No love lost between us. 

Goldsmith. She Stoops to Conquer. Act iv. 

Garrick's Correspondence. 1759. 

preference generally given to the gray mares of Flanders over 
the linest coach-horses of England. History of England, 
vol. i. ch. 3. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 409 

Of two evils the less is always to be chosen. 

Thomas AKempis. Imitation of Christ. Booh ii, 
ch. 12. 

Of two evils I have chose the least. 

Prior. Imitation of Horace, 
Smell a rat. 

Ben Joxson. Tale of a Tub. Act iv. Sc. 3. 

Butler. Hudibras. Part i. c. 1. Line 281. 

Rhyme nor reason. 

Spenser. On his promised Pension. Shakspeare. 
As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2. 

Sir Thomas More advised an author who had 
sent him his manuscript to read " to put it in 
rhyme." Which being done, Sir Thomas said, 
"Yea marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is 
rhyme ; before it was neither rhyme nor reason." 

Speech is silver, silence is gold. A Dutch Proverb. 

Speech is like cloth of Arras, opened and put 
abroad, whereby the imagery doth appear in fig- 
ure ; whereas in thoughts they lie but as in packs. 
Plutarch. Vit. Themist. 28. 
Thick and thin. 

Spenser. Fairy Queen. Book iii. c. i. St. 17. 

Cowper. John Gilpin. Dryden. Absalom and 
Achitoplul. Part ii. Line 414. 

To make a virtue of necessity. 

Chaucer. Squier's Tale. Part ii. Shakspeare. 
Two Gentlemen of Verona. Rabelais. Book i. 
ch. 2. Dryden. Palamon and Arcite. 



410 MISCELLANEOUS. 

In the additions of Hadrianus Junius to the 
adages of Erasmus, he remarks, (under the head 
of Necessitatem edere,) that a very familiar prov- 
erb was current among his countrymen, viz. : 
Necessitatem in virtutem commutare. 

Wherever God erects a house of prayer, 
The devil always builds a chapel there. 

De Foe. The True-Born Englishman. 
Part i. Line 1. 

God never had a church but there, men say 
The devil a chapel hath raised by some wyles. 
I doubted of this saw, till on a day 
I westward spied great Edinburgh's Saint Gyles. 
Drummond. Posthumous Poems. 
No sooner is a temple built to God, but the 
Devil builds a chapel hard by. 

George Herbert. Jacula Prudentum. 
Where God hath a temple the Devil will have 
a chapel. 

Burton. Anatomy of Melancholy. Part 3. Sc. iv 
M. 1. Subs. 1. 

Wrong sow by the ear. 

Ben Joxsox. Every Man in his Humor. Act ii. 
Sc. 1. Butler. Hudilrras. Part ii. c. 3. Line 580. 
Colman. Heir at Law. Act i. Sc. 1. 



INDEX. 



Aaron's serpent, 189. 
Abdiel. the seraph, 150. 
Absent in body, 21 
Above ah Roman fame, 203. 
Above the smoke and stir, 153. 
Abra was ready, 177. 
Abridgment of man, 251. 
Absolute the knave is, 114. 
Abstracts and brief chronicles, 

106. 
Abundance of the heart, 16. 
Abuse, stumbling on, 86. 
Accept a miracle. 223. 
Accepted time, 23. 
Accidents by flood and field, 116. 
Accommodated, excellent, to be 67. 
Accoutred as I was, 76. 
Aching void, 265. 
Acres, over whose, walked, 60. 
Acting of a dreadful thing, 77. 
Act well your part, 191. 
Action and counteraction, 381. 
Action, how like an angel, 106. 
Action, no noble, 406. 
Action, pious, 107- 
Action, suit the, to the word, 109. 
Actions like almanacs, 136. 
Actions of the just, 135. 
Acts, little nameless, 287. 
Acts our angels are, 129. 
Ada, sole daughter, 325. 
Adam dolvo and Eve span, 405. 
Adam the goodliest man, 148. 
Adam, the offending, 68. 
Adam's fall we sinned all, 404. 
Adder, like the deaf, 6. 
Adieu, sweetly she bade me, 236. 
Admired disorder, 94. 
Admitted to that equal sky, 1ST. 
Adored through fear, 261. 
Adorn a tale, 231. 
Adorn, nothing he did not, 233. 
Adulteries of Art, 127. 
Adversary, had written a book, 5. 
Adversary the devil, 25. 



Adversity, sweet are uses of. 18. 
Adversity's sweet milk. 87. 
Affection hateth nicer hands, 27 
Affliction tries our virtue, 230. 
Afric's sunny fountains. 323. 
After life's fitful fever, 94. 
Agate-stone bigger than, 84. 
Age, ache, and penury, 35. 
Age, be comfort to my, 48. 
Age cannot wither her, 80. 
Age, expect one of my, 282. 
Age, for talking, 247. 
Age, green old, 171. 
Age, he was not for an, 128. 
Age, in a good old. 1. 
Age is as a lusty winter, 41. 
Age is grown picked, 114. 
Age, master spirits of, 78. 
Age of cards, 194. 
Age of chivalry, 381 
Age of ease, 248. 
Age serene and bright. 2S8. 
Age shakes Athena, 325. 
Age, summer of her, 171. 
Age without a name, 314. 
Ages famous to all, 373. 
Ages, heir of all the. 352. 
Ages, once in the flight of. 303. 
Ages, seven, 50. 
Ages, three poets in three, 172 
Ages, through the, 351. 
Ages, the slumbering, 354. 
Agony, all we know of, 358. 
Agree, where they do, 272. 
Air, a chartered libertine, 68. 
Air, be shook to, 75. 
Air, do not saw the, 109. 
Air excellent canopy. 105. 
Air is full of farewells, 861 
Air, leaves to the, 84. 
Air, melted into thin, 30. 
Air, mocking the. 59. 
Air of delightful studies, 372. 
Air of glory, 160. 
Airy hopes, niy children, 293. 



412 



Airr nothing, a local habitation. 

40. 
Airy tongues, that syllable, 153. 
Aisle and fretted vault, 241. 
Aisles of Christian Rome, 357. 
Ajax strives, 198. 
Alabaster, grandsire cut in, 44. 
Alacrity in .sinking. 32. 
Alderman 's forefi . 
Alexandrine, needless, 197. 
Alike all age-. 247. 
A little more than kin. 99. 
All chance direction, 188. 
All cry and no wool. 162. 
All Europe rings. 159. 
All in the Downs. 212. 
All is not lost, 14u. 
All men have their price, 378. 
All save honor, 396. 
4.11 that 'a bright. 319. 
All that glisters is not gold, 408. 
4.11 the proud shall be, 209. 
All the world 's a stage, 50. 
All things, prove. 23. 
All things that are chased, 45. 
All things to all men. 22. 
All things work for good. 20. 
All think all men mortal. 218. 
All thoughts all pas-ions. 299. 
All thy ends, thy country's, 74 
Allegory, headstrong as an, 271. 
Allies thon hast, 285. 
Allured to brighter worlds, 249. 
Almanacs like actions of the last 

age, 136. 
Almighty dollar. 391. 
Almighty Father ! these as they 

change 228. 
Alms, when thou doest, 15. 
Alone, never less, 349. 
Alone, with noble thoughts. 368. 
Alone on a wide, wide sea. 298. 
Alone, that man should be, 1. 
Alone with his glorv. 344. 
Alpha and Omega, 25. 
Alp. o'er manv a fierv. 146. 
Alps on Alps arise, 190. 
Alraschid. Ilaroun, 353. 
Altars, strike for your, 357 
Alteration finds, 122. 
Alway, not live. 4. 
Amber, grubs in. 201. 
Ambition, fling away. 74. 
Ambition loves to slide, 168. 
Ambition of sterner stuff, 78- 
Ambition of a private man. 258. 
Ambition, to reiz'i is worth. 141. 
Ambition, vaulting, 91. 



Amen stuck in my throat, 92. 

Amend your ways. 13. 

Ammiral, mast of. 141. 

Among them, not of them. 327. 

Among the untrodden ways, 284 

Amorous, fond, and billimr. 165. 

Ample room and verge. 24 
. Anarch, lets the curtain fall. 20G 

Ancestors after him, 31. 
• Ancestors of natuie, 147. 

Ancient and fishlike. 29. 

Ancient grudge. 44. 

ADgel, ministering, 311. 
! Angel, presiding, 349. 

Angel, recording. 379. 
I Angels and ministers of grace 
102. 

Angels are bright still. 96. 

Angel's face, 27 

Angels felt by that sin. 74. 

Angels, holy, guard thy bed, 224 

Angels in dreams, 160. 

Angels ken, 140. 

Angels liveried. 154. 

Angels, make the. weep, 34. 

Angels, our acts are. 129. 

Angels painted fair. 174. 

Angels till our passion dies. 137. 

Angels trumpet-tongued. 91. 

Angel-visits, few and far. 305. 
isite, short, 176. 

Angels' visits, short and far be- 
tween, 216. 

Angels would be gods, 187. 

Anger, more in sorrow, 101. 

Anger of his lip. 57. 

Angling like poetry. 371. 

Angry, be ye, and sin not, 23. 

Anguish another's sport, 160. 

Anguish, hopeless. 233. 

Anguish, lessened by another's, 
84. 

Annals of the poor. 241. 

Animated bust. 241. 

Annihilate space and time. 209. 

Anointed, rail on the Lord's, 72. 

Another and the same. 294 

Another's sword laid him low, 306. 

Answer, i soft. 8. 

Anthem, pealing, 241. 

Anthem singing, 66. 

Anthro: ophagi, 116. 

Antidote, sweet oblivious, 97. 

Antres vast, 116. 

Any thing, what is worth in, 163. 

Apollo's lute, musical as, 155. 

A polios watered. 21. 

Apostles fled, she when. 3o5. 



INDEX. 



413 



Apostolic blows and knocks, 162. 
Apparel, every true man's, 36. 
Ap arel, fashion wears out, 37. 
Apparel proclaims the man, 102. 
Apparitions, blushing, 38. 
Apparitions seen and gone, 176. 
Appearance, judge not by, 20. 
Appetite, to breakfast with, 73. 
Appetite comes with eating, 366. 
Appetite, digestion wait on. 94. 
Appetite grown by what it fed on, 

100. 
Appetite, hungry edge of, 60. 
Applaud to the very echo, 97. 
Apple of his eye, 2. 
Apple rotten at heart. 44. 
Apples, choice in, 53. 
Apples of gold. 9. 
Appliances and means to boot, 67. 
Appliauce desperate, 112. 
Apprehension, death is most in, 

35. 
Apprehension like a god, 106. 
Appreheusion of the good, 60. 
Approbation from Sir Hubert, 281. 
Approving heaven, 227. 
April day, uncertain glory of, 30. 
April, June, and November, 403. 
Arabia breathes from yonder box, 

199. 
Arabia, perfumes of, 96. 
Araby's daughter, 316. 
Arcades ambo, 340. 
Archangel ruined, 142. 
Archer, insatiate, 217. 
Architect of his own fortunes, 

Argue not against heaven, 159. 
Argue though vanquished, 249. 
Argues yourselves unknown, 149. 
Argument, staple of his, 42. 
Ark of her magnificent cause, 

258. 
Ark rolls of Noah's, 168. 
Armies clad in iron, 152. 
Armies swore terribly, 379. 
Armor his honest thought, 126. 
Armorers accomplishing the 

knights, 69. 
Arms of seeming, 169. 
Arms, take your last embrace, 88. 
Army with banners, 12. 
Arrow over the house, 115. 
Arrows, Cupid kills with, 37. 
Art, adorning with so much 137. 
Art, beyond the reach of, 196. 
Art, ease in writing comes from. 

197. 



Art may erf, 172. 

Art of God, 222. 

Art is long, 360. 

Art, than all the gloss of, 250. 

Art to blot, 204. 

Art to cover guilt, 252. 

Art, with curious, 256. 

Artless jealousy, 113. 

Arts and eloquence, mother of 

152. 
Arts in which the wise excel, 175. 
Arts which I lov d, 137. 
Asbourue, down thy hill, 282. 
As good as a play, 397. 
As he thinketh, 8. 
As it fell upon a day, 125. 
Ashes to ashes, 26. 
Ashes, wonted fires live in, 242. 
Ashkelon, in the streets of, 3. 
Ask, and it shall be given, 16. 
Ask death-beds, 218. 
Ask me no questions, 252. 
Asleep, the houses seem, 289. 
Ass, egregious, 117. 
Ass, write me down an, 38. 
Assassination trammel up, 90. 
Assume a virtue, 112. 
Assurance double sure, 95. 
Assurance of a man, 112. 
Astronomer, undevout. 222. 
Atheism, the owlet. 299. 
Atheist by night, 220. 
Atheist's laugh, 276. 
Athens, the eye of Greece, 152 
Atlantean shoulders, 145. 
Atomies, team of, 85. 
Attempt, and not the deed, 92. 
Attempt the end, 134. 
Attendance, to dance, 75. 
Attention still as night. 145. 
Audience, and attention drew 

145. 
Audience fit, though few. 150. 
Auld acquaintance, 276. 
Authority, a little brief, 34. 
Avon, sweet swan of, 128. 
Avon to the Severn runs, 295. 
Awake, arise, for ever fallen, 142. 
Awe, of such a thing as I, 76. 
Axe, laid to the root, 18. 
Axe to grind, 377. 
Azure robe of night, 312. 

Babbled of green fields, 68. 
Babe, bent o'er her, 268. 
Bachelor, I would die a. 37 
Back and side go bare, 123. 
Back, thumps upon your, 266 



14 



Back to the field. 307. 

Backing, a plague upon such, 62. 

Bad eminence. 144. 

Badge of our tribe. 45. 

Balance, dust of the, 12. 

Balances, weighed in the, 14. 

Baldric of the skies, 342. 

Bales unopened. 218. 

Bail 1 1-monger, fame metre. 64. 

I', i I to his mi-tress", 50. 

l;.i lads of a natio i 

Ballads of a natiou, make. 375. 

sang from a cart, 172. 
Balloon, hnf 
Balm in Gilead, 13. 
Balm of hurt mind--. 92. 
Bane and antidote, 180. 
Bane of all that dread the Devil, 

284. 
Banish plump Jack, 03. 
Bank, 1 know a, 40. 
Banner, star-fipanglcd. 363. 
Banners, an army with. 12. 
Banners, hang out our, 97 
Banquet hall deserted, 320. 

Banquet song and dance. 358. 
Banquet "s o'er, when the, 212. 
Barbarians, young. 327. 
Barbaric pearl. 144. 
Bark attendant sail. 192, 
Barleycorn, .lohn, 274. 
Barren sceptre, 93. 
Base in kind, 263. 
Base is the slave that pays. 68. 
Base uses. 114. 

Baseless fabric of a vision, 30. 
Bastard to the time. 58. 
Bastion fringed with fire, 352. 
Bated breath, 45. 
Battalions, sorrows come in, 113. 
Battle and the breeze, 306. 
Battle, freedom's, once began. 330. 
Battle, mighty fallen in. 3. 
Battle, not to the strong. 10. 
Battle, perilous edge of, 141. 
Battle's magnificently-stern ar- 
ray. 326. 
Battles, fought his, o'er, 166. 
Bcttles. siege--, pa.-.-e 1. III. 
Battlements, bore stars. 293. 
Be-all. this blow might be the, 90. 
Be not the first to try, 197. 
Be of good chepr. 17. 
Be thou familiar, 101. 
Be to her virtues very kind. 177. 
Be wise to-day, 217. 
Be wise with speed. 222. 
Be wisely worldly. 13L 



Beadle to a humorous sigh, 4L 
Beads and prayer-books, 190. 
Bear, like the Turk, 201. 
Bear the palm, 76. 
Beard and hoary hair, 240. 
Beard of formal cut, 50. 
Beard the lion, 311. 
Bearded like the pard, 50. 
Beards wag all, 12.3. 
Bears and lions growl. 224. 
Beast familiar to man, 31. 
Beast, righteous man regardeth, 

Beast that wants discourse of rea- 
son, 100. 

Beaumont, lie a little further. 128. 

Beaumont, nearer Spenser, 100. 

Beauties of exulting Greece, 228. 

Beauties of the night, 126. 

Beauties revealed while she hides, 
235. 

Beautiful, and to be wooed, 70. 

Beautiful as sweet, 219. 

Beautiful beyond compare, 303. 

Beautiful tyrant, 87. 

Beautifully less. 178. 

Beauty, a thing of, 343. 

Beauty calls, and glory leads, 175. 

Beauty draws us with a single 
hair, 199. 

Beauty fills the air -with, 327 

Beauty for ashes, 13. 

Beauty, flower of, 171. 

Beauty in his life, 121. 

Beauty is truth. 343. 

Beauty, lines where, lingers, 329. 

Beauty, much, as could die, 127. 

Beauty of woman's eye, 42. 

Beauty, she walks in, 336. 

Beauty, smiling in her tears, 305. 

Beauty truly blent. 55. 

Beau*.;. \s chain, 320. 

Beauty's ens 

Beaux where none are. 235. 

Bedfellows, strange. 29. 

Bed at Ware, 214 

Bed of honor. 214. 

Bee, the little busy. 224. 

Bee, where sucks the, 30. 

Beer, chronicle small. 117. 

Bees, innumerable. 353. 

Beetle, that we tread upon. 35 

Beggar, dumb, mav challenge 
double pity. 124. 

Beggared all description, 80. 

Beggarly last doit. 261. 

Beggarly account of empty Boxes. 



INDEX. 



415 



Beggars die, when, 77. 

Beggary in lore, SO. 

Beggiug the question, 395. 

Beginning of the end, 399. 

Begone, dull care, 404. 

Belated peasant, 143. 

Belial, sous of, 142. 

Bidief, prospect of, 89. 

Bell strikee one, 217. 

Bell, church-going, 265. 

Bell, silence that dreadful, 118. 

Bell, sullen, sound as a, 66. 

Belle, "t is vain to be a, 235. 

Bells jangled, out of tuue, 108. 

Belly is their god. 23. 

Beneath the good how far, 2-39. 

Beueath the milk-white thorn. 

278. 
Bench of heedless bishops, 236. 
B -udemeer's stream. 315. 
Bent, top of my, 111. 
Bermootb.es, still-vexed, 29. 
Berries, come to pluck your, 155. 
Best administered. 190. 
Best but shadows. 40. 
Best men moulded out of faults, 

36. 
Best of men, 136. 
Better a dinner of herbs, 8. 
Better spared a better man, 65. 
Better to be lowlv born. 73. 
Better to have loved and lost. 352. 
Better to reign in hell. 141. 
Betwixt wind and nobility, 61. 
Beware of desperate steps. 266. 
Beware of entrance to a quarrel, 

102. 
Beware the Ides of March, 75. 
Beyond the reach of art, 196. 
Bezonian. under which king, 68. 
Bibles laid open. 132. 
Big with the fate of Rome. 179. 
Bigness which you see, 173. 
Billows, swelling, 299. 
Binding nature lVt in fete, 207. 
Bird of dawning. 99. 
Bird of the air, 14. 
Bird that sliunn'st, 157. 
Birds have nests, 116. 
Birds in last year's nest, 360. 
Birth is but a sleep, 292. 
Birth nothing but our death, 221. 
Biscuit, remainder, 49. 
Bishop, church without a, 3S9. 
Bitter is a scornful jest, 232. 
Bitterness of things, 292. 
Black spirits and white, 95. 
Black to red began to turn, 164 



Blackberries, plenty as, 63. 
Blackbird to whistle, 161. 
Bladder, like a, 63. 
Blade, heart-stain on, 321. 
Blades of grass to grow, 184. 
Blameless vestals : lot. 207. 
Blast of war, 68. 
Bleeding country save. 304. 
Blessed, more, to give. 20. 
Blesses his stars, 179. 
Blessing, most need of, 92. 
Blessings and eternal praise, 291. 
Blessings brighten, 219. 
Blessings on him that invented 

sleep, 387- 
Blessings, on virtuous deeds, 185 
Blest, always to be. 186. 
Blest I have been. 330. 
Blest paper-credit, 195. 
Blind bard, 302. 
Blind, eyes to the, 5. 
Blind guides, 18. 
Blind, if the blind lead the, 17. 
Blind old man. 331. 
Blind to her faults, 177. 
Bliss, domestic happiness, 259. 
Bliss gained by every woe. 235. 
Bliss in the mind. 247. 
Bliss of solitude. 286. 
Bliss to be alive, 296. 
Bliss, virtue makes the, 244. 
Bliss, winged hours of. 305. 
Blockhead, the bookful. 198.. 
Blood, felt in the, 2S7. 
Blood follow the knife, 223. 
Blood in her cheeks. 126. 
Blood of the Howard*, 191. 
Blood of the martyrs, 393. 
Blood, rebellious liquors in mv, 48. 
Blood stirs to rouse a lion, 61. 
Blood, weltering in. 166. 
Blood, whoso sheddeth, 1. 
Bloody instructions, 90. 
Blot, dying he could wish to, 234. 
Bloom of young desire, 239. 
Blow and crack your clieeks, S2. 
Blow, hand that dealt the, 306- 
Blow, themselves must strike, 325 
I Blow thou winter wind, 51. 
Blue, deeply beautifully, 340 
Blue, the fresh the ever free 349. 
Blunder, frae mony a, 275. 
Blunder in men. 269. 
Blunder, worse than a crime. 3S4. 
Blush of maiden shame, 356. 
Blushing honors. 74. 
Boast not of to-morrow, 9. 
Boast, patriot's, 246. 



416 



Boatmen, take thrioe thy fee, 365. 
Boats, little, should keep near 

shore, 377. 
Bobbed for whale, 173. 
Bodkin bare, 107. 
Body, absent in, 21. 
Body form doth take, 28. 
Body thought, 126. 
Bond, not nominated in the, 46. 
Bond of fate, 95. 
Bondman, who would be a, 78. 
Bondman's key, 45. 
Bondsmen, hereditary, 325. 
Bone and Skin, two millers, 214. 
Bones are cural, 29. 
Bones, full of dead men's, 18. 
Boues, good interred with. 78. 
Bones, lay his weary, 75. 
Bononcini, compared to, 214. 
Booby, who 'd give her, 213. 
Book, adversary had written a, 5. 
Book and heart, 404. 
Book, as good kill a man as a, 

373. 
Book, dainties in a, 42. 
Book, face is as a, 90. 
Book, in gold clasps, 83. 
Book of nature, short of leaves, 

347. 
Book, precious life blood, 373. 
Book, to think I read a, 292. 
Bookful blockhead, 198. 
Book 's a book, 334. 
Books, cannot always please. 273. 
Books in the running brooks, 48 
Books, making of, no end, 11. 
Books of honor razed, 122. 
Books the printers lost by, 375. 
Books, quit your, 290. 
Books, some to be ta.-ted, 369. 
Books, spectacles of. 172. 
Books to be tasted, 369. 
Books were woman's looks. 319. 
Books which are no books, 297. 
Books, wiser without. 261. 
Bo-peep, plaved at. 134. 
Bores and bored, 340. 
Born, better ne'er been, 314. 
Born, better to be lowly, 73. 
Born in a garret, 337. 
Bom to be a slave. 263. 
Born to blush unseen. 241. 
Boi n en Jer a rhyming planet. 39. 
Borne down by the flying. 310. 
Borrower nor lender be, 102. 
Borrowing dulls the edge, 102. 
Bosom, cleanse the stuffed, 97. 

i of his Father, 243. 



Bosonig, come home to men's, 369 

Bosom's lord sits lightly, 87. 

Boston, solid men of, 270. 

Botanize upon his mother's grave 
291. 

Both were young, 334. 

Bottom thou art translated, 40. 

Boughs are daily rifled, 346. 

Bounds of modesty, 87. 

Bounty, large was his, 243. 

Bourbon or Nassau, 178. 

Bourn, no traveller returns, 10S. 

Bowels of the harmless earth, 61. 

Bowels of the land, 73. 

Bowers of bliss, 216. 

Bowl, with my friendly, 203. 

Boxes, a beggarly account of, 88. 

Boy, who would not be a, 325. 

Boys, go wooing in my, 254. 

Braggart, with my tongue, 96. 

Brain, heat-oppressed, 92. 

Brain him with a fan, 62. 

Brain, memory, warder of the. 91 , 

Brain, paper-bullets of the, 37. 

Brain, too finely wrought, 256. 

Brain, very coinage of .\our. 112. 

Brain, volume of the, l04. 

Brain, written troubles of the, 97. 

Brains, cudgel thy, 113. 

Brains, steal away their, 118. 

Brains were out, 94. 

Brandy for heroes, 234. 

Brass, evil manners live in, 75- 

Brass, sounding, 22, 

Brave deseive the fair, 166. 

Brave, home of the, 363. 

Brave, how sleep the, 244. 

Brave, on, ye, 305. 

Breach, imminent deadly, 116. 

Breach, more honored in the, 102. 

Breach of honor, 164. 

Breach, once more to the, 68. 

Bread, distressful, 69. 

Bread eaten in secret, 7. 

Bread, man shall not live by, 15. 

Bread upon the waters, 10. 

Breakfast on a lion's lip, 68. 

Breakfast with what appetite, 73. 

Breast, eternal in the human. 1 L M 

Breast, within his own clear, 154 

Breastplate, what stronger, (0. 

Breath, bated, 45. 

Breath can make them, 248, 

Breath, good man yields, 303. 

Breath, weary of, 346. 

Breathes there the man. 809. 
j Breeches cost a crown, 117. 
I Breed of noble blood, 77. 



417 



Brentford, two kings of, 257. 

Brethren, in unity, 6. 

Brevity is the soul of wit, 105. 

Briars, workiug-day full of, 48. 

Bribe, too poor for a, 243. 

Bricks are alive, 71. 

Bridge of sighs, 327. 

Brief as woinau : s love, 110. 

Bright honor. 62. 

Bright particular star. 54. 

Bright waters meet, 317. 

Brightest and best of the sons 
of the morning. 322. 

Bright-eyed Fancy, 239. 

Bringer of unwelcome news, 66. 

Britannia needs no bulwark?. 306. 

Britannia rules the waves, 229. 

Britons never will be slaves, 229. 

Broadcloth, without, 262. 

Brook and river meet,, 360. 

Brook cau see no moon, 317. 

B»ook, noise like a hidden. 298. 

Brook, sparkling with a, 341. 

Brooks, books in the runniug, 48. 

Brother, exquisite to relieve, 278. 

Brother, like a vera. 274 

Brotherhood, monastic, 293. 

Brothers in distress, 278. 

Brothers keeper. 1. 

Brow, anguish wrings the, 311. 

Brows, gathering her, 274. 

Bruised reed, 12. 

Brutus is an honorable man, 78. 

Bubbles, the earth hath, 89. 

Bubbling cry. 338. 

Bucket, as a drop of a, 12. 

Bucket, the old oaken, 323. 

Buckets into empty wells, 259. 

Buckram rogues. 62. 

Bucks had dined, 256. 

Bud to heaven conveyed, 301. 

Bug in a rug, 377. 

Bugle, one blast upon. 313. 

BuSd. he lives to. 226. 

Build the lofty rhyme, 155. - 

Builded better than he knew, 357. 

Built God a church. 262. 

Built in the eclipse. 156. 

Bulwark, floating, 378. 

Burden and heat of the day, 17. 

Burden, bear his own. 23. 

Burden of some merry song, 203. 

Burden of the mystery. 2*7. 

Burden of three score, 247. 

Burden, the grasshopper a, 11. 

Burglary, flat. 38. 

Burniug. one fire burns out an- 
other^, 84. 

27 



Burst in ignorance, 103. 
Bush, good wine needs no, 53. 
Bush, the thief fears each, 71. 
Busy hammers, 69. 
Busy hum of men. 158. 
Butterfly upon a wheel, 202. 
Butter in a lordly dish,' 2 
Button on fortune's cap, 105. 
By strangers mourned, 208. 

Cabiued. cribbed, confined, 94 

Cadmeau victory, 392. 

Caesar turned to clay. 114- 

Caesar had his Brutus, 383. 

Caesar hath wept, 78. 

Caesar, in every wound of. 79. 

Caesar, not that I loved less, 78. 

Caesar with a senate, 191. 

Caesar, word of, 79. 

Caesar's wife above suspicion. 393 

Cage, nor iron bars a, 135. 

Cain the first city made. 137. 

Cake is dough, 53. 

Cakes and ale, 56. 

Calamity of so long life, 107. 

Caledonia stern and wild, 310. 

Calf's skin, hang a, 58. 

Call it holy ground, 343. 

Call you that backing, 62. 

Calling shapes. 153. 

Calm lights of philosophy, 179. 

Calumny, shalt not escape, 108. 

Cambuscan bold, story of, 157. 

Cambyses' vein, 63. 

Camel, swallow a, 18. 

Camel through the eye of a needle, 

Camilla scours the plain, 198. 
Can any mortal mixture, 154. 
Can storied urn, 241. 
Can such things be, 95. 
Candid tongue, 109'. 
Candle, fit to hold a. 214. 
Candle, hold to the sun, 223. 
Candle, throws his beam, 47. 
Caudle, out, brief, 98. 
Cankers of a calm world. 64. 
Cannot but remember, 96. 
Canon against self-slaughter, 100. 
Cannon's mouth. 50. 
Canopied by the blue sky, 334. 
Cap of youth. 113. 
Captain ill, 122. 
Captain's choleric word, 34. 
Captive good, 122. 
Capulets. tomb of the, 382. 
Carcass, eagles will gather, 18. 
Card, we must speak by the, 114 



418 



INDEX. 



Cards, old age of, 194. 

Care adds a nail, 267. 

Care, an enemy to life, 55. 

Care beguiled by sports, 246. 

Care, dividing, 349. 

Care keeps his watch, 86. 

Care of the main chance, 164. 

Care, ravelled sleave of, 92. 

Cares, fret thy sonl with, 23. 

Cares, nobler loves and, 291. 

Cart, b illads from a, 172. 

Cart, now traversed the, 177. 

C.tsca, the envious, 79. 

Cassius, darest thou leap, 76. 

Cassius lean and hungry, 77. 

Cast, set my life upon a, 73. 

Cast bread upon the waters, 10. 

Castle, a man's house is his, 370. 

Castles in the air, 407. 

Castle's strength, 97. 

Casuist's doubt. 195. 

Cat, endow a college or a, 195. 

Cat in the adage. 91. 

Cat will mew, 114. 

Catalogue, men in the, 93. 

Cataract, the sounding, 287. 

Cataracts, silent, 300. 

Catastrophe, I '11 tickle your, 66. 

Catch the conscience, 106. 

Catch the driving gale, 190. 

Cathay, cycle of, 352. 

Cato, "big with the fate of, 179. 

Cato the sententious, 340. 

Caucasus, on the frosty, 60. 

Cause, hear me for my, 78. 

Cause of mankind, 317. 

Caution, cold pausing, 276. 

Cave, darksome, 27. 

Cave, interlunar, 152. 

Caviare to the general, 106. 

Caw, says he. 238. 

Celestial, rosy-red. 151. 

Censure, each man's, 102. 

Cerberus, three gentlemen, 271. 

Ceremony to great ones, 34. 

Cervantes serious air, 204. 

Chaff, hid in two bushels of, 44. 

Chair, one vacant, 361. 

Chair, rack of a too easv, 206. 

Chalice, our poisoned, 91. 

Chamber where the good man 
meets his fate, 219. 

Champaigne and a chicken, 213. 

Chance, main, 164. 

Chance decides the fate of mon- 
archs, 228. 

Chance to fall below Demosthe- 
nes or Cicero, 282. 



Chancellor in embryo, 236. 
Chances, most disastrous, 116. 
Change came o'er my dream, 334 
Change of many-colcred life, 232 
Change, riugiug grooves of, 352. 
Change, such a, 326. 
Chanticleer, crow like, 49. 
Chaos and old night, 142. 
Chaos, dread empire, 206. 
Chaos is come again, 118. 
Chaos, reign of, 142. 
Chaos of thought, 188. 
Character, I leave bebind, 272. 
Characters from high life, 193. 
Characters of Hell, 240. 
Charge, Chester, charge, 311. 
Chapel, the devil builds a, 177. 
Charities that soothe. 294. 
Charity covers the multitude of 

sins, 25. 
Charity, melting. 67. 
Charmed life, 98.' 
Charm, no need of a remoter, 287 
Charm to stay the morning star, 

300. 
Charms strike the sight. 200. 
Charmer, t' other dear, away, 212. 
Charmer sinner it, 193. 
Charming never so wisely, 6. 
Chartered libertine. 68. 
Chary bdis your mother, 45. 
Chariest maid, 101. 
Chaste as ice, 108. 
Chaste as morning dew, 220. 
Chastity, saintly, 154. 
Chatham's language, 258. 
Chatterton, marvellous boy, 286. 
Chaucer, lodge thee by, 128. 
Cheap defence of nations, 381 
Cheat, life 't is all a, 170. 
Cheated, pleasure of being, 164. 
Cheek, feed on her damask, 56. 
Cheek, he that loves a rosy, 129. 
Cheek of night, 85. 
Cheek, tears down Pluto's, 157. 
Cheek, that I might touch, 85, 
Cheek, the roses from your, 235. 
Cheek, upon her hand. 85. 
Cheer, be of good, 17. 
Cheerful godliness. 285. 
Cheerful yesterday's, 294. 
Cheese, moon made of green, 4CS 
Cherry, like to a double, 40. 
Cherubims, young-eyed, 47. 
Chest of drawers by day, 249. 
Chewing the food of fancy, 52. 
Chian strand, 302. 
Chickens, all my pretty, 96. 



419 



Chickens, count your, ere they 

are hatched, 164. 
Chief, vain was the, 204. 
Chiel amang you takiu' notes, 275. 
Child, a curious. 293- 
Child, a naked newborn, 269. 
Child, a simple, 283. 
Child, a three years, 296. 
Child, a wise father that knows 

his own, 45. 
Child, grief for my absent, 59. 
Child I spake as a, 22. 
Child is father of the man, 283. 
Child is not mine, 382. 
Child, know of death, 283. 
Child of misery, 268. 
Child of suffering, 362. 
Child, spoil the, 163. 
Child, to have a thankless, 81. 
Child, train up a, 8. 
Childhood, days of my, 297. 
Childhood's hour, 315. 
Childishness, second, 51. 
Children call her blessed, 9. 
Children gathering pebbles, 152. 
Children, my airy hopes, 293. 
Children of an idle brain, 85. 
Children of larger growth, 170. 
Children of light, 9. 
Children of the sun, 223. 
Children of this world, 19. 
Children, Rachel weeping for her, 

15. 
Children's sports satisfy, 246. 
Chimes at midnight, 67. 
Chimney corner, men from the, 

Chimney in my father's house, 

Chimeras dire, 146. 

China fall, 194. 

Chinks of her broken body, 138. 

Chinks that time has made, 138. 

Chin, some bee had stung, 133. 

Chivalry, age of, 381. 

Choice and master spirits, 78. 

Choice in rotten apples, 53. 

Choose a proper mate, 264. 

Chord, in melancholy, 347. 

Chord in unison, 261. 

Christian God Almighty's gentle- 
man, 220. 

Christian, highest style of man, 
220. 

Christians burned each other, 337. 

Christmas somes once a year, 123. 

Chronicle small beer, 117. 

Chronicles of the time, 106. 



Chrysolite, perfect, 121. 
Church, built God a, 262. 
Church without a bishop, 389. 
Church, who builds to God a, 195. 
Churchdoor, not so wide as a, 87. 
Church-goiug bell, 265. 
Churchyards yawn, 111. 
Circle, Shakspeare's magic, 169. 
Cimmerian darkness, 305. 
Circumstance allows, the best. 

218. 
Cities, far from gay, 210. 
Citizens, man made us, 363. 
City set on an hill, 15. 
Civet, ounce of, 83. 
Claims of long descent, 353. 
Clapper-clawing, 164. 
Claret, the liquor for boys, 234. 
Clarion, sound the, 314. 
Classic ground, 181. 
Clay, blind his soul with, 353. 
Clay of human kind, 171. 
Clay, the tenement of, 167. 
Cleanse the stuffed bosom, 97. 
Clear as a whistle, 214. 
Clink of hammers, 182. 
Clock worn out, 171. 
Clod kneaded, 35. 
Clothing the palpable, 302. 
Close of the day, 256. 
Cloud but serves to brighten, 230. 
Cloud of witnesses, 24. 
Cloud out of the sea, 3. 
Cloud, like a summer's, 95. 
Cloud, sable, 154. 
Cloud which wraps the present 

hour, 230. 
Cloud with silver lining, 154. 
Cloud-capped towers, 30. 
Clouds that lowered, 71. 
Cloy the edge of appetite, 60. 
Clubs typical of strife, 260. 
Coach, go call a, 216. 
Coals of fire on his head, 9, 21. 
Coat buttoned down before, 364. 
Coats, a hole in a' your, 275. 
Cockloft is empty, 375. 
Coffee makes the politician wise. 

200. 
Coigne of vantage, 90. 
Coil, not worth this, 58. 
Coil, shuffle off this mortal, 107. 
Coinage of your brain, 112. 
Cold in clime, cold in blood, 330. 
Cold on Canadian hills, 268. 
Cold, the changed, 327. 
Cold waters to a thirsty soul, 9. 
Coldly sweet, 329. 



420 



Coliseum, stands the, 328. 
College, die and endow a, 195. 
Cologne, wash your city of, 301. 
Colors idly spread, 59. 
Colossus, bestride the world, 76. 
Columbia, happy land, 282. 
Column, throws up a steamy, 260. 
Combat deepens, 305. 
Combination and a form, 112. 
Come and trip it, 157. 
Ocine as the winds, 313. 
Come, gentle spring, 227. 
Come home to men's bosoms, 369. 
Come, like shadows, 95. 
Come live with me, 124. 
Come one, come all, 313. 
Come to the bridal chamber, 357. 
Come what come may, 89. 
Comforters, miserable, 4. 
Co Ding events, 307. 
Commentators, each dark passage 

shun, 223. 
Commentators, plain, 274. 
Commonplace of uature, 286. 
Common sun, 243, 
Commuuion sweet, quaff, 150. 
Communion with nature, 356. 
Companions, I have had, 297. 
Company, dog shall bear him, 

187. 
Comparisons are odious, 126. 
Comparisons are odorous, 38. 
Compass, a narrow, 138. 
Complete steel, 103. 
Complies against his will, 165. 
G'omposture of excrement, 88. 
Compound for sins, 162. 
Compulsion, a reason on, 63. 
Compunctious visitings, 90. 
Compute what's done, 275. 
Concatenation accordingly, 252. 
Concealment, like a worm, 56. 
Conceals, the maid who modestly, 

235. 
Conceits, wise in your own, 21. 
Conclusion, a foregone. 121. 
Conclusion, impotent, 117. 
Concord of sweet sounds, 47. 
Condemn the fault, 33. 
Conduct still right, 250. 
Confident to-morrows, 294. 
Confines of daylight, 373. 
Confirmations strong, 120. 
Conflict, dire was the, 150. 
Confusion, his masterpiece, 93. 
Confusion, worse confounded, 147. 
Congregate, merchants, 44. 
Congregation of vapors, 106. 



Conjectures, I am weary of, 180. 
Conquer love, they, that run, 129 
Conquer we must, 363. 
Conquerors, a lean fellow boats 

all, 136. 
Conquest, ever since the, 174. 
Conscience corrupted, 70. 
Conscience makes cowards, 108 
Conscience of her worth. 151. 
Conscience of the king, 106. 
Conscience with politics, 272. 
Conscious water, 135. 
Consecration and dream, 292. 
Consideration, like an augel, 68. 
Constable, outrun the, 163. 
Constant as the northern star, 78 
Constancy in wind, 334. 
Consummation devoutly to be 

wished, 107. 
Consumption's ghastly form, 8P8. 
Contagion to the world, 111. 
Contagious, blastments, 101. 
Contemplation, formed, 148. 
Content, farewell, 120. 
Content, humble livers in. 73. 
Content to dwell in decencies, 104. 
Contented, when one is, 367. 
Contentious woman, 9. 
Contentment, of the noblest mind. 

27. 
Contests from trivial things, 199. 
Continual dropping, 9. 
Continual plodders, 41. 
Contortions of the sybil, 382. 
Contradiction, woman 's a, 194. 
Conversation's burrs, 362. 
Conversing, I forget all time, 149. 
Convey, the wise call it, 32. 
Convolutions of a sinootb-lippe J 

shell, 293. 
Coral, bones are, 29. 
Coral lip admires, 129. 
Cord be loosed. 11. 
Corn, reap an acre of, 283. 
Corn, two ears of, 184. 
Corner, sits the wind in that. 37- 
Coronets, kind hearts are moie 

than, 353. 
Corporal sufferance, 35. 
Corporations, no souls, 370 
Correspondent to command, 29 
Corsair's name, he left a, 33i. 
Cortez, like stout, 344. 
Costard, rational hind, 41. 
Costly thy habit. 102. 
Cot, beside the hill, 349. 
Cottage, the soul's dark. 138. 
Cottage, stood beside a, 355. 



INDEX. 



421 



Couch, drapery of his, 356. 
Counsels, maturest, 144. 

Counsellors, multitude of, 7. 
Count your chickens, 164. 
Countenance more in sorrow, 101. 
Counterfeit presentment, 111. 
Country, God made the, 257. 
Country left, for country's, 406. 
Courage mounteth with, 58. 
Courage never to submit, 141. 
Courage, screw your, 91 
Course, I have finished my, 24. 
Course of empire, 215. 
Course of true love, 39. 
Courtesy, the very pink of, 86. 
Coventry, not march through, 64. 
Coward on instinct, 63. 
Coward sneaks to death, 183. 
Coward thou slave, 58. 
Cowards die many times, 78. 
Cowards, plague of all, 62. 
Cowards, what can ennoble, 191. 
Cowslips bell, 30. 
Cozenage, strange, 171. 
Crabtree and old iron rang, 162. 
Crack of doom, 95. 
Cradle, my little ones, 363. 
Cradle stand.-- in the grave, 221. 
Cradles rock us, 221. 
Crammed, with distressful bread, 

Cranny, every, but the right, 266. 
Creation sleeps, 217. 
Creator, remember thy, 11. 
Creature not too bright, 286. 
Creature smarts so little as a fool, 

201. 
Creature 's at his dirty work, 201. 
Creatures, delicate, 120. 
Creatures, millions of spiritual, 

149. 
Creatures you dissect, 193. 
Crebillon, romances of, 243. 
Creditor, glory of a, 33. 
Credulity, ye who listen with, 232. 
Creed, sapping a solemn, 326. 
Creed, suckled in an our-\v<>i-n,289. 
Cricket on the hearth, 157. 
Crime, worse than a, 384. 
Crimes, the dignity of, 269. 
Crimes, undivulged, 82. 
Crispian, feast of, 69. 
Critical, nothing if not, 117. 
Criticizing elves, 256. 
Critic's eye, 282. 
Critics, before you trust in, 335. 
Cromwell damned to fame, 192. 
Crony, drouthy, 274. 



Crook the pregnant hinges, 109. 

Crops the flowery food, 186. 

Cross, last at his, 365. 

Cross, sparkling, she wore, 199. 

Cross, the bitter. 60. 

Crosses and cares, 28. 

Crotchets in thy head now, 32. 

Crowd, foremost, 205. 

Crown, fruitless, 93. 

Crown, head that wears a, 67. 

Crown of glory, 8. 

Crown of life, 24. 

Ciown of sorrow, 351. 

Crown us with rosebuds, 134. 

Crude surfeit, 155. 

Cruel as death. 228. 

Cruel only to be kind, 112. 

Crumbs, dogs eat of the, 17. 

Crush of worlds, 180. 

Crutch, shouldered his, 248. 

Cry and no wool, 162. 

Cry Havoc, 78. 

Cry is still they come, 97. 

Cudgel thy brains, 113. 

Cunning, hand forget her, 7. 

Chinning in fence, 57. 

Cup, kiss but in the, 127. 

Cupid is painted blind, 39. 

Cupid kills with arrows, 37. 

Cups, in their flowing, 70. 

Cups that cheer, 260. 

Cur of low degree, 251. 

Curled darlings of our nation, 115. 

Current of a woman's will, 226. 

Current of domestic joy, 232. 

Currents turn awry, 108. 

Curs mouth a bone, 256. 

Curse on all laws, 207. 

Curses, not loud, but deep, 97. 

Curses, rigged with dark, 156. 

Curst be the verse. 202. 

Cushion and soft dean, 195. 

Custom always in the afternoon, 

104. 
Custom honored in the breach, 

102. 
Custom stale her variety, 80. 
Cut, the most unkindest, 79. 
Cut-purse of the empire, 112. 
Cycle and epicycle, 150. 
Cycle of Cathay, 352. 
Cymbal, tinkling, 22. 
Cynosure of neighboring eyes, 158. 
Cynthia of this minute. 194. 
Cytherea's breath, 54. 

i Dacian mother, 327. 

I Daffodils before the swallow, 54 



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INDEX. 



Dagger 1 see before me, 91. 

Dagger of the mind, 92. 

Daggers, drawing, 164. 

Daggers, speak, to her. 111. 

Daily beauty in his life, 121. 

Dainties bred in a book, 42. 

Daisies pied, 43, 158. 

Dale, haunts in, 302. 

Dalliance, path of. 101. 

Dame, our sulky sullen, 274. 

Dames of ancient days, 247. 

Damn with faint praise, 202. 

Damnable iteration. 61. 

Dam nation of his taking off. 91. 

Damnation round the land, 207. 

Damned, see him, first, 57. 

Damned to fame, 192. 

Damned who first cries hold, 98. 

Damsel lay deploring, 212 

Dan Cupid, 42. 

Dan to Beersheba, 379. 

Dance attendance, 75. 

Dance, on with the, 326. 

Danger, out of this nettle, 62. 

Danger's troubled night. 306. 

Dangers, loved me for, 117. 

Dangers of the seas, 177. 

Daniel come to judgment. 46. 

Dare, I, what man dare. 94. 

Dare to be true, 132. 

Dare to die, 190. 

Darien, upon a peak in, 344. 

Daring dined. 206. 

Dark, illumine what is, 140. 

Darkness, Cimmerian, 305. 

Darkness, the raven down of, 154. 

Darkness visible, 140. 

Darling sin, 299. 

Dart, like the poisoning of a, 137. 

Dart, time shall throw a, 128. 

Daughter, harping on my, 105. 

Daughters of my father's house, 

56. 
David. Nathan said to, 3. 
David, not only hating. 168. 
Dawn, exhalations of the, 302. 
Dawn is overcast, 179. 
Daws to peck at, 115. 
Day, as it fell upon a, 125. 
Day, big with the fate of Rome, 

179. 
Day brought back my night, 1-/J 
Day, burden and heat of, 17. 
Day, critic on the last, 198. 
Day, I 've lost a, 218. 
Day, jocund, stands tip-toe, 87. 
Day lost, think that, 406. 
Day may bring forth, 9. 



Day, merry as the, 36. 
Day, not to me returns, 147. 
Day of nothingness, 329. 
Day, posteriors of, 43. 
Day, suffering ended with, 355. 
Day, sufficient unto the, 16. 
Day, the great important. 179. 
Days dull and hoary, 160. 
Day's march nearer home, 303. 
Days mere glimmerings, 160. 
Days of lang syne, 277. 
Days, one of those heavenly, 285 
Days, race of other, 359. 
Days, sweet childish, 283. 
Days, swifter than a shuttle, 4. 
Days that are no more, 352. 
Days, the melancholy, $56. 
Days, though fallen on evil, 150. 
Daystar, so sinks the, 156. 
Dazzles to blind, 256. 
Dazzling fence of rhetoric. 155. 
Dead, he mourns the. who lives as 

they desire, 218. 
Dead in bis harness, 15. 
Dead, my days among, 297- 
Dead, not, but gone before, 349 

Dead of midnight, 268. 

Dead, past bury its, dead, 360. 

Deal damnation, 207. 

Dear as the ruddy drops, 240. 

Dear beauteous death, 160. 

Dearest thing he owed, 90. 

Death and brother sleep. 341. 

Death, be thou faithful unto. 25. 

Death borders on our birth, 221. 

Death by slanderous tongues. 39. 

Death came with friendly care,301 

Death, cowards sneak to, 183. 

Death, cruel as, 228. 

Death, grinned horrible. 147. 

Death has all seasons. 342. 

Death in the midst of life, 26. 

Death in the pot, 4. 

Death loves a shining mark, 221. 

Death mosc in apprehension. 35. 

Death, nature never made. 220. 

Death of each day's life, 92. 

Death, on every breeze. 322. 

Death, ruling passion in. 193. 

Death shook his dart. 152. 

Death, simple child know of, 283. 

Death, soul under the ribs of, 155. 
I Death, studied in his. 89. 
\ Death, valiant taste but once, 78. 
j Death, the way to dusty, 98. 

Death, they were not divided in, 3 

Death to us, play to you. 160. 
I Death urges, knells call, 218. 



INDEX. 



423 



Death, wages of sin is. 20. 
Death, where is thv sting, 22. 
Death's pale flag. 88. 
Deathbeds, ask. 218. 
Deathbed 's a detector of the 

heart. 219. 
Debt, a double, to pay. 249. 
Debtor to his profession, 369. 
Decay, vesrure of. 47, 
Decay's effacing fingers, 329. 
Deceit iu gorgeous palace, 87- 
December, roses in, 334. 
Decencies, content to dwell in. 194. 
Decencies, daily flow. 151. 
Decencies, those thousand. 151. 
Decencv, emblems right meet of, 

236. 
Decencv. want of, want of sense. 

174. 
Deed and flighty purpose. 96. 
Deed dignifies the place. 55. 
Deed, so shines a good. 47. 
Deed, the attempt, not the, 92. 
Deed without a name, 95. 
Deeds ill done, 59. 
Deeds, necessity excused, 143. 
Deeds, we lire in. 354. 
Deep as a well. 87. 
Deep as first love, 353. 
Deep damnation, 91. 
Deep, in the lowest, a lower, 148. 
Deep, spirits from the, 63. 
Deep, yet clear, 136. 
Deeper than plummet. 30. 
Deep-mouthed welcome, 337. 
Deer, strucken. 110. 
Deer, such small, 82. 
Defend me from my friends. 399. 
Defer, madness to, 217. 
Defiance in their eye. 247. 
Degrees, fine by. 178. 
Deliberation arid public care. 145. 
Delight in this fool's paradise, 273. 
Delight into a sacrifice. 1S2. 
Delight with liberty, 27. 
Delightful task, 227. 
Delphian vales, 359. 
Democruty, that fierce. 152. 
Den. beard the lion in his. 311. 
Denied, he comes too near who 

comes to be. 130. 
Denmark, something rotten in. 

103. 
Depart, loth to. 177. 
Derby dilly, 282. 
Descend ye Xine. 210. 
Descent and fall adverse. 144. 
Descent, claims of long, 353. 



Description, beggared all. 80. 

Desdemona seriously incline. 116 

Desert blossom as the rose. 12. 

Desert, my dwelling-place. 328. 

Desert of a thousand liues. 203. 

De-erted at his utmost need, 166. 

Desert, man after his. 106. 

Desire, bloom of voung. 239 

Desire, kindle soft. 167T 

Desire of the moth, 341. 

Despair, depth of some divine, 352 

Despair, fiercer by. 144. 

Despair, reason would. 234. 

Despair, wasting in. 130. 

Despatchful looks, i50. 

Despoud. slough of. 173. 

Destroy his fib. 201. 

Destruction, pride goeth before, 8. 

Detector of the heart. 219. 

Detraction at your heels, 56. 

Devil a monk was he, 367. 

Devil a pleasing shape, 106. 

Devil a? a roaring lion. 25. 

Devil can cite Scripture. 44. 

Devil, give the, his due, 61. 

Devil, go. poor, 379. 

Devil hunting for one fair female, 
172. 

Devil, in his quiver. 340. 

Devil, laughing. £32. 

Devil, of all that dread. 284. 

Devil, resist the. 25 

Devil sends cooks. 237. 

Devil take the hin'most, 407. 

Devil, to serve the. 345. 

Devil, truth and shame the, 64. 

Devil was sick, 367. 

Devil wear b'.ack. 110. 

Devil with devil damued. 146. 

Devotion, ignorance mother of. 
170. 

Devotion's visage. 107. 

Dew. chaste as morning, 220. 

Dewdrop from the lion's mane. "5 

Dial, figures on a. a54. 

Dial to the sun, 165. 256. 

Diana's Foresters. 61. 

Dictynna goodman dull. 42. 

Die. and go we know not where. 35 
j Die because a woman 's fair. 130. 
J Die, heavenly days cannot 285. 

Die. in moulding Sheridan, 335. 

Die in the last ditch 3y8. 

Die, let us do or. 277. 

Die of a rose, 187. 

Die. stand the hazard of the, 73 

Die, taught us how to. 211. 

Die with harness on. 98. 



424 



INDEX. 



Die. who tell us love can, 296. 

Died iu freedom's cause, 282. 

Dies and makes no sign. 70. 

Digestion wait on appetite, 94. 

Dignity in every gesture 150. 

Dim and perilous way, 293. 

Dim eclipse, 142. 

Dim religious light, 157. 

Diminished heads, 147. 

Dine, that jurymen may, 200 

Dinner of herbs, better is. 8. 

Dire was the noise of conflict. 150. 

Disastrous chances, 116. 

Disastrous twilight. 142. 

Discontent, nights in pensive, 28. 

Discontent, winter of our. 71. 

Discourse eloquent music. 111. 

Discourse of reason. 100. 

Discourse, such large. 113. 

Discourse^ voluble in. 41. 

Discrcetest, best, 151. 

Discretion better part of valor, 65. 

Diseases, desperate, 112. 

Disinheriting countenance. 272. 

Disorder, most admired, 94. 

Disposer of other men's stuff. 126. 

Dispraise no small praise, 152. 

Dissension between hearts. 316. 

Distance lends enchantment, 304. 

Distemper, died of no, 171. 

Distressed, griefs that harass the, 
232. 

Divided duty, 117. 

Dividends, incarnation of fat. 359. 

Divine, all save the spirit of man 
is, 331. 

Divine, human face, 147. 

Divine philosophy. 154. 

Divine, to forgive, 198. 

Divinity doth~hedge a king, 113. 

Divinity in odd numbers, 32. 

Divinity that shapes our ends, 114. 

Divinity tbat stirs within us, 180. 

Division of a battle, 115. 

Doctor, dismissing the. 279. 

Doctors, disagree, who shall de- 
cide when. 195. 

Doctrine, orthodox, 162. 

Doctrines clear, what makes, 165. 

Do good by stealth, 204. 

Dog. and bay the moon. 79. 

Dog. hunts in dreams like a, 351. 

Dog it was that died, 251. 

Dog, let no. bark, 44. 

Dog, living, better than dead lion, 
10. 

Dog, not one to throw at a, 48. 

Dog shall bear him company, 187. 



Dog, something better than his. 

351. 
Dog went mad, 251. 
Dog, whose, are you, 210. 
Dog will have his day, 114. 
Dog, word to throw at, 48. 
Dogs delight to bark and bite. 224 
Dogs, eat of the crumb.--, 17. 
Dogs of war, let slip the, 78. 
Dogs, the little. and all. S3. 
Dogs, throw phvsic to the, 97. 
Doit, beggarly, 261. 
Doleful sound, 225. 
Dome, him of the western, 169. 
Dome of many colored glass, 341 
Dome of thought, 324. 
Domestic happiness, 259. 
Dominions, the sun never sets, in 

my. 388. 
Done quickly, if 'twere, 90. 
Doom, the crack of, 95. 
Doom, regardless of their, 238. 
Door, sweetest tiling beside, 283. 
Dorian mood of flutes, 142. 
Dotage, tears of. 231. 
Dotes, yet doubts, 119. 
Double debt to pay, 249. 
Double toil and trouble, 95. 
Doubly dying, 309. , 
Doubt, never stand to, 134. 
Doubt, once in, 119. 
Doubt the stars are fire, 105. 
Doubts are traitors, 33. 
Dove, gently as a sucking, 39. 
Dove, wings like a, 6. 
Doves, harmless as. 16. 
Doves, moan of, 353. 
Down among the dead men, 177. 
Down, he that is, can fall no 

lower, 163. 
Drachenfels, crag of, 326. 
Drags at each remove. 246. 
Drags its slow length along, 197. 
Draw men as they ought to be, 

250. 
Dread of something after death, 

108. 
Dream, a change came o'er my, 

334. 
Dream, consecration and the 

poets, 292. 
Dream, forgotten, 287. 
Dream, which was not all a. 338. 
Dream, life but an empty, 300 
Dream, the old men's. 168. 
Dreams, a dog hunts in, 351. 
Dreams, books, are each a world. 

291. 



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425 



Dreams, pleasing, 311. 
Dreams, so full of fearful 72. 
Dreams, such stuff as, 30. 
Dreams, true, I talk of, 85. 
Dregs of life, 171. 
Drew iron tears, 157. 
Drink deep, or taste not. 196. 
Drink, if lie thirst, give him, 21. 
Drink, pretty creature, 283. 
Drink to me only, 127. 
Drinking largely sobers us, 196. 
Driveller and a show. 231. 
Drop a tear and bid adieu, 230. 
Drop of a bucket. 12. 
Dropped a tear. 379. 
Drops, ruddy, i7. 
Drowned honor, 62. 
Drudgery at the desk, 297. 
Drudgery, make, divine, 131. 
Druid lies in yonder grave, 245. 
Drum was heard, 31-1. 
Drunk, listen to be, 169. 
Drunkard clasp his teeth, 128. 
Drunken man, stagger like a. 6. 
Dry as the remainder buiscuit, 

49. 
Dues, render unto all their, 21. 
Dukedom, mv library was, 29. 
Dull tame shore, 348. 
Dulness ever loves a. joke, 205. 
Dumb on their own merits, 279. 
Duncan hath borne his faculties, 

91. 
Duncan is in his grave. 94. 
Dunce sent to roam, 264. 
Dunce with wits, 205. 
Dundee, single hour of, 294. 
Durance vile. 276. 
Dusky race, 352. 
Dust, blossom in the, 135. 
Dust, hearts dry as summer's, 

292. 
Dust, his enemies shall lick the, 

6. 
Dust, learned, 259. 
Dust of the balance, 12. 
Dust return to the earth, 11. 
Dust, shalt thou return unto. 1 
Dust, the knight's bones are, 300. 
Dust thou art, 1. 
Dust to dust. 26. 
Duties primal, shine aloft, 20-1. 
Duty, perceive here a divided. 117. 
Dyer's hand, like the, 122. 
Dying man to dying men, 173. 

Each particular hair, 103. 
Eagle mewing her youth, 373. 



Eagle, so the struck, 335. 
Eagle's fate and mine are one, 139- 
K igles gather the carcass, 18. 
E ir, give every man thy, 102. 
Ear, jewel in an Ethiop's, 85. 
Ear, more is meant than meets 

the. 157. 
Ear, night's dull, 69. 
Ear, word of promise to our 98. 
Ear, wrong sow bv the, 411. 
Ear-piercing file, 120. 
Ears, in my ancient, 86. 
E:ik, let him hear that hath, 13 
Ears of flesh and blood, 103. 
Ears of the groundlings, 109. 
Ears took captive, 55. 
Earth, best of men that e'er 

wore, 136. 
Earth, but one beloved face on, 

334. 
Earth, earthy, 22. 
Earth felt the wound, 151. 
Earth, first flower of, 319. 
E irth for charity, 75. 
Earth forgot, 317. 
Earth, giauts in the, 1. 
Earth, growth of mother, 288. 
Earth has no sorrow, 321. 
Earth hath bubbles, 89. 
Earth her thousand voices, 300. 
Earth, less of, 312. 
Earth, more things in heaven and, 

104. 
Earth proudly wears the Parthe- 
non. 357. 
Earth, put a girdle round the, 

40. 
Earth, salt of the, 15. 
Earth, so much of, 288. 
Earth soaks up the rain, 138. 
Earth, thou sure and firm-set, 92. 
Earth to earth, 26. 
Earth, to smell a turf of fresh, 

375. 
Earth, truth crushed to, 357. 
Earth, way of all the, 2. 
Earth 's a thief, 88. 
Earth's noblest thing, 363. 
Earthlier happy, 39. 
Earthly hope, 322. 
Earthy, of the earth, 22. 
Ease and alternate labor, 227- 
Ease, he did with so much, 167. 
Ease in mine inn, 64. 
Easy as lying, 111. 
Easy writing curst hard reading, 

273. 
Eat, drink, and be merry, 10. 



426 



INDEX. 



Eaten out of house and home, 66. 
Echo, applaud to the very, 97. 
Echoing walks, 151. 
Eclipse, huilt in the, 156. 
Ec.-t icv of love, 105. 
Edified, whoe'er was, 259. 
K lucation forms the mind, 193. 
Education, virtuous and noble, 

372. 
Eel of science, 205. 
Egregiously. an aes, 117. 
Egg. the learned roast, 204. 
Either, happy with, 212. 
Elder, let the woman take an, 56. 
Elegant sufficiency, 227. 
Elephants, for want of towns, 184. 
Elements, dare the, 332. 
Elements so mixed in him, 80. 
Elms, immemorial, .353. 
Eloquence, heavenly. 169. 
Eloquence the soul, 146. 
Eloquence to woe, 332. 
Eloquent, old man, 159. 
Elves, criticizing, 256. 
Elysium, lap it in, 154. 
Elysium on earth, 316. 
Embattled farmers, 357. 
Emblems of decency, 236. 
Eminence, that bad, 144. 
the course of. 215. 

e, the rod of, 241. 
Employment, how various his, 

259. 
Employment, wishing the worst, 

Empty vaulted night, 154. 
Enamel'd stones. 31. 
Enchantment, distance lends, 304. 
Encounter of our wits, 72. 
End-all, might be the, 90. 
End, attempt the, 134. 
End must justify the means, 178. 
Endow a college, 195. 
Ends, thy country's, 74. 
Endure, then pity, 189. 
Endured, not to be. 37. 
Enemies, his, shall lick the dust, 

6. 
Enemies, naked to mine, 74. 
Enemy, feed thine. 21. 
Enemy thing devised by the, 73. 
Engineer, hoist with his own pe- 

tar, 112. 
England, with all thy faults. 25S. 
England, ve gentlemen of, 177. 
English undented, 27. 
Enjoy your dear wit, 155. 
Ensanguined haarts, 260. 



Ensign tattered, 361. 
Enskyed and sainted, 33. 
Enterprise, life-blood of, 64. 
Enterprises, impediments tc 

great, 359. 
Enterprises of great pith, 108. 
Entertained angels unawares, 24 
Entire chrysolite, 121. 
Entrance to a quarrel, 102. 
Envious tongues, 74. 
Envy will merit, 198. 
Envy withers at another's joy, 

227. 
Ephesian dome, 182. 
Epicurus' sty, 350. 
Epitaph, believe a woman or, 335. 
Epitaph, no man can write my, 

386. 
Epitome, all mankind's, 168. 
Equal to all things, 250. 
Ercle?' vein, 39. ■ 
Erebus, dark as, 47. 
Err, to, is human, 198. 
Erring sister's shame, 330. 
Error, wounded, 357. 
Error writhes with pain, 357. 
Errors, female, 199. 
Errors like straws, 170. 
Kruption, bodes some strange, 99. 
Eruptions in Nature, 63. 
Espied a feather, 139. 
Estate, fallen from his high, 166. 
Eternal blazon. 103. 
Eternal smiles, 202. 
Eternal summer, 339. 
Eternal sunshine. 249. 
Eternities, two, 315. 
Eternity in bondage, 180. 
Eternity intimates to man, 180. 
Eternity mourns, 354. 
Eternity, opes the palace of, 153. 
Eternity, thoughts that wandel 

through, 145. 
Eternity, white radiance of, 341. 
Etheriai mildness, 22,. 
Ethiopian, change his skin, 13. 
Etrurian shades, 141. 
Eve fairest of her daughters, 148. 
Eve, irmn noon to dewy, 143. 
Eve, graiilmother. 41. 
Even-handed justice, 90. 
Evening bells, 319. 
Evening, now came still. 148. 
Evening shades prevail. 181. 
Evening, welcome peaceful. 26C 
Events, coming. 307. 
Events, spirits of great. 302. 
Ever charming, ever new, 229. 



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427 



Erer since the Conquest, 174. 

Ever thus from childhood, 315. 

Everlasting flint, 86. 

Every cranny but the right, 26G. 

Every inch a king, 83. 

Every one as God made him, 3'37. 

Every shepherd tells his tale, 15S. 

Everything by starts, 168. 

Everywhere his place, 138. 

Every why a wherefore, 161. 

Every woman a rake, 194. 

Evidence of things not seen, 24. 

Evil, be not overcome of, 21. 

Evil be thou my good, 148. 

Evil communications, 22 

Evil days, fallen on. 150. 

Evil do, that good may come, 20. 

Evil, money the root of all, 24. 

Evil news rides post, 153. 

Evil report and good report, 23. 

Evil, still educing good from, 228. 

Evil, sufficient unto the day, 16. 

Evil that men do lives after them, 

78. 
Evil, universal good. 188. 
Evils, least of two, 3o6. 410. 
Excel, 't is useless to, 235. 
Excellent thing in woman, 83. 
Excess of glory, 142. 
Excess, wasteful, 59. 
Excuse for the glass, 272. 
Execrable shape, 147. 
Execute their airy purposes, 142. 
Exhalation, like an, 143. 
Exhalations of the dawn, 302. 
Exhaled to heaven, 220. 
Exhausted worlds, 232. 
Exile of Erin, 307. 
Expectation, better bettered, 36. 
Expectation fails oft, 54. 
Expectation makes a blessing 

dear, 133. 
Experience tells, 247. 
Experience to make me sad, 52. 
Explain a thing till ah men 

doubt, 205. 
Explain the asking eye, 202. 
Exposition of sleep, 40. 
Expressive silence, 229. 
Extenuate, nothing, 122. 
Extremes in nature, 195. 
Exultations, agonies, 285. 
Eye and prospect of his soul, 38. 
Eye, apple of his, 2. 
Eye behind you, 56. 
Eye, defiance in their, 247. 
Eye for eye, 2. 
Eye, harvest of a quiet, 291. 



Eye, heaven in her, 150. 

Eye in a fine frenzy rolling, 40. 

Eje, in my mind's, 101. 

Eve, jaundiced, 198. 

Eye, lacklustre, 49. 

Eye like Mars, 111. 

Eye, more peril in thine. 85. 

Eye, my great task-master's, 159 

Eye, negotiate for itself, 38. 

Eye, precious seeing to, 42. 

Eye, pupil of the, 321. 

Eye sublime, 148. 

Eye, twinkling of an, 22. 

Eye, white wench's black, 86. 

Eye mil mark our coming, 337. 

Eye,. with lacklustre, 49. 

Eyebrow, ballad to his mistress' 

50. 
E_yes, a man with large jray, 283 
Eyes, drink to me only with. 127. 
Eyes, history in a nation's, 242. 
Eyes, light in woman's, 319. 
Eves, look your last. 88. 
Eyes looked love, 326. 
Eyes make pictures, 302. 
Eyes, no speculation in those, 94, 
Eyes, not a friend to close his, 166. 
Eyes now dimmed, 320. 
Eyes rain influence, 158. 
Eyes, soul sitting in thine, 156. 
Eves start from their spheres, 103 
Eyes, the glow-worm lend thee, 

134. 
Eyes to the blind, 5. 

Fabric, baseless, 30. 

Fabric, huge, 143. 

Face, can't I another's, commend, 

235. 
Face, continual comfort in, 28. 
Face, finer form or lovelier, 312 
Face, human, diviue, 147. 
Face, in many a solitary place, 2S9. 
Face is as a book, 90. 
Face, mind's construction in. 90. 
Face, music breathing from, 331 
Face, one beloved, 334. 
Face, shining, morning, 50 
Face that makes simplicity a 

grace, 127. 
Face, transmitter of a foolish, 133- 
Faces, the old familiar, 297. 
Facts, imagination for his, 273. 
Faculties, hath borne his, 91. 
Faculty divine, 292. 
Fade, all that 's bright must, 319. 
Fade as a leaf. 13. 
Faery elves, 143. 



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INDEX. 



Fail, no such word as, 350. 

Fail who die in a great cause, 337. 

Failing leaned to virtue's side, 

249. 
Faint he.irt ne'er won fair lady, 

173. 
Fair is foul, 89. 
Fair, is she not passing, 31. 
Fair Melrose, 308. 
Fair, none but the brave deserve, 

loo. 
Fair spoken and persuading, 75. 
Fair tresses, 199. 
Fairies' midwife, 84. 

Fairy fiction drest, 240. 

Fairy hands, 241. 

Faith, amaranthine riowerof,2S9. 

Faith a passionate intuition, 294. 

Faith, belief had ripened into, 

204. 
Faith, for modes of, 190. 
Faith, herself is half confounded, 

383. 
Faith, 1 have kept the, 24. 
Faith in womankind, 353. 
Faith Milton held, 285. 
Faith of many made for one, 190. 
Faith of reason, 302. 
Faith perhaps wrong, 137. 
Faith plain and simple, 70. 
Faith, substance of tilings hoped 

for, 24. 
Faith, we walk by, 23. 
Faithful among the faithless, 150. 
Faithful dog. 187. 
Faithful unto death, 25. 
Falcon towering in her pride, 93. 
Fall, a dying, 55. 
Fall, O what a, was there, 79. 
Fallen from high estate, 166. 
Fallen on evil days, 150. 
Falling-off was there, 103. 
Falling with a falling state, 209. 
Falls like Lucifer, 74. 
False as dicers' oaths, 111. 
Falsehood a goodly outside, 44. 
Falsehood under saintly show, 

148. 
False philosophy, 146. 
Fame, damned to everlasting. 192. 
Fame, hard to clinib the steep of, 

255. 
Fame is the spur. 156. 
Fame, the end of, 33S. 
Fame, the martyrdom of, 335. 
Fame's proud temple, 255. 
Familiar, be. not vulgar. 101. 
Familiar beast to man, 31. 



Familiar in their mouths, 69. 
Familiar with her face, 189. 
F'amous by my sword, 139. 
Famous, found myself, 340. 
Famous to all ages, 373. 
F'aruous victory, 297. 
Fancies, men's more giddy, 56. 
Fancies, with thick coming, 97. 
Fancy free, 40. 
Fancy, home-bound, 354. 
Fancy, impediments in, 55. 
F'ancy, sweet and bitter, 52. 
F'ancy the finger of a clock, 260. 
Fancy's meteor ray, 277. 
Fancy's rays hills adorning, 276. 
Fantasies throng into my memo 

ry, 153. 
Fantastic as woman. 313. 
Fantastic, fickle, 313 
F'antasy, vain, 85. 
Far above the great, 239. 
Far as the solar walk, 187. 
F\ar from gay cities, 210. 
Fardels bare, 107. 
Fare thee well ! and if forevei , 

Farewell, happy fields, 141. 
Farewell hope, fear, remorse. 148. 
Farewell, neighing steed, 120. 
Farewell, that fatal word, 332. 
Farewell the plumed troop, 120. 
Farewell the tranquil mind, 120. 
Farewell to all my greatness, 73. 
Farewells to the dying, 361. 
Farewell, word that must be, 329. 
Farmers embattled stood, 357. 
Fascination of a name, 262. 
Fashion, glass of, 108. 
Fashion of this world, 22. 
Fashion wears out more apparel 

37. 
Fasting for a good man's love, 51, 
Fat, men that are, 77. 
Fat oxen, who drive, 234. 
Fat weed, 103. 
F'atal bellman, 92. 
Fate, down the torrent of, 231. 
Fate, fixed, 146. 
Fate, he either fears his, 139. 
Fate, in the storms of, 209. 
Fate seemed to wind him up, 171. 
Fate, take a bond of, 95. 
Father antic, 61. 
F'ather of all, in every age, 207. 
Father, no more like my, 100. 
Fattest hog in Epicurus' sty, 350. 
Fault, condemn the, 33. 
Fault, excusing a, 59. 



429 



Fault, he that does one, 225. 
Fault not in our stars. 77. 
Fault, seeming monstrous, 51. 
Faults, be to her, a little blind, 

177. 
Faults, men moulded out of, 35. 

e ill-favored, 32. 
Faults, with all thy, 258. 
Favorite has no friend, 243. 
Favorite, to be a prodigal's 291. 
Fawn and crouch, 2S. 
Fawning, thrift may follow, 109. 
Fear of hell, 275. 
Fear, perfect love casteth ou'„ 25. 
Fear, with hope, farewell, 118. 
Fearfully and wonderfully made, 

Fears make us traitors, 96. 
Fears, our hopes belied our, 346. 
Fears, saucy doubts and, 94. 
Feast, bare imagination of a, 60. 
Feast of languages, 42. 
Feast of nectared sweets, 155. 
Feast of reason, 203. 
Feasting presence, 88. 
Feather, a wit "s a, 191. 
Feather, of his own. espied, 139. 
Feather, to waft a. 217. 
Feeble, Forcible. 67. 
Feed on hope, 28. 
Feel, must feel themselves, 256. 
Feelings, great, came to them, 

345. 
Feelings to mortal given. 312. 
Feels at each thread, 187. 
Feels, meanest thing that, 2?7. 
Feet beneath her petticoat, 132. 
Feet like snails did creep, 133. 
Feet nailed on the bitter cross, 60. 
Feet to the foe, 307. 
Feet to the lame, 5. 
Feet, with reluctant, 330. 
Felicity, our own we make. 232. 
Fell, do not love thee Dr., 176. 
Fell like autumn fruit, 171. 
Fell purpose, 90. 

Fellow-feeling makes us kind. 237. 
Fellow of infinite jest, 114. 
Fellow that hath had losses, 38. 
Fellow that hath two gowns, 38. 
Fellow with the best king, 70. 
Female errors fall, 199. 
Female, one. lost the devil half 

the kind, 172. 
Fence, cunning in, 57. 
Fens. bogs. dens. 146. 
Ferdinand Mentez Pinto. 185. 
Fever, after life's fitful, 94. 



Few are chosen, 17. 
| Few in the extreme, 1S9. 
■ Few know their own good, 171. 

Fibs, ask me no questions and I '11 
tell no. 252. 

Fickle as a dream. 313. 

Fico for the phrase. o2. 

Fiction, fairy, drest. 240 

Fiction, stranger taan. 310. 

Fie. foil, and funi. 83. 

Fieid be lost, though the. 140 

Field, lilies of the. 15. 

Fields, 'a babbled of green, 68 

Fields, farewell happy, 111. 

Fields were won. 24S. 

Fiend angelical, 87. 

Fierce as ten furies, 146. 

Fierce democrary, 152. 

Fiery soul working its way, 16} . 

Fife, ear-piercing, 120. 

Fife, wrv-necked, 45. 

Fight, fought a good, 24. 

Fights and runs away, 402. 

Figure for the time of scorn, 121 

Figure, the thing we like we, 354 

Filthy lucre, 23. 

Final hope, flat despair, 145. 

Fine by defect, 194. 

Fine by degrees, 178. 

Finger, slow and moving, 121. 

Fingers rude, 155. 

Fire answers fire, 69. 

Fire-bad as three removes, 377. 

Fire, kindled by a little, 25. 

Fire in each eye, 200. 

Fire, one, burns but another's, 84. 

Fire, pale his uneffectual, 104. 

Fire! while I was musing the, 6. 

Fires of ruin glow, 304. 

Fires, their wonted. 242. 

Firmament, no fellow in the, 78. 

Firmament, o'erhanging, 1U6. 

Firmament, the spacious, 181. 

Fit audience, though few, 150. 

Fits, 'twas sad by, 244. 

Fixed like a plant, 189. 

Flag of the free heart, 342. 

Flame, adding fuel to the, 153. 

Flanders received our yoke, 13S 

Flanders, our armies swore terri 
bly in, 379. 

Flashes of merriment, 114. 

Flat and unprofitable, 100. 

Flat burglary, 38. 

Flatterers, besieged by, 202. 

Flatterers, he hates. 77. 

Flattering unction, 112. 
I Flattery on poet's ear, SOS 



430 



INDEX. 



Flea on a lion's lip, 68. 
Flea, so naturalists observe a, 184. 
Fleeting good. 246. 
Flesh, all. is grass, 12. 
Flesh and blood can"t bear it. 214. 
.- art thou fishified, 86. 
Flesh is heir to, 107. 
Flesh is weak, spirit willing, 18. 
Flesh, this too. too solid, 100. 
Flesh will quiver. 223. 
I state, 131. 

Flight of a. 

Flight of future days, 145. 
Flighty purpose, 96. 
Fling away ambition, 74. 
Fling but a stone, 225. 
Flint, snore upon the, 81. 
Flint, wear out the everlasting, 86. 
Floating bulwark. 378. 
Floods, bathe in fiery, 35. 
Flow like thee. 136. 
Flow of soul. 203. 
Flower, full many a, 241. 
Flower, man a. 231. 
Flower offered in the bud. 224. 
Floweret of the vale. 243. 
Flowers, to feed on, 28. 
Flowing cups, 135. 
Flowre or herbe, no daintie. 27. 
Flutes. Dorian mood of, 142. 
Fly not vet. 316. 
Fly, those that. 165. 
Fly, to drown a. 217. 
Foe, unrelenting, to love, 229. 
Foemen worthy of their steel. 313. 
Foes, thrice he routed all his, 166. 
Follv as it flies. 186. 
Folly at full length. 215. 
Follv grow romantic, 193. 
Folly into sin, 314. 
Follv, shunn*st the noise of, 157. 
Folly to be wise, 239. 
Folly, when woman stoops to, 252. 
Fontarabian echoes. 311. 
Food for powder, 65. 
Food, minds not craving for, 273. 
Food, nature's daily, 286. 
Food, pined and wanted, 283. 
Fool at fortv, 222. 
Fool at thirty, 213. 
Fool, every inch that is not, 169. 
Fool me at the top of my bent. 111. 
Fool no creature smarts so little 

as a. 201. 
Fool now and then is right, 262. 
Fool to make me merry, 52. 
Fool who thinks by force of skill, 



Fool with judges. 263. 

Fools admire, 198. 

Fools contest for governments, 

190. 
Fools ever since the Conquest. 174. 
Fools for arguments use wagers, 

163. 
FooLs, in idle wishes, 273. 
Fools mock at sin, 7. 
Fools, paradise of, 147, 273. 
Fools rush in. 199. 
Fools, suckle. 117. 
Fools that do^jot know howmuch 

more the half is than the 

whole, 392. 
Fools they are who roam, 245. 
Fools to dusty death, 98. 
Fools who came to scoff, 249. 
Foot has music in 't, 267. 
Foot more light, 312. 
Foot of time, noiseless, 55, 307. 
Foot on mv native heath, 314. 
Foot. 0. so light a, 86. 
Footprints on the sands, 360. 
Forbearance ceases to be a virtue, 

382. 
Force of nature, 172. 
Force, who overcomes by, 143. 
Forcible Feeble, 67. 
Foredoes or makes me, 121. 
Forefinger of all time, 352. 
Foregone conclusion, 121. 
Forehead of the morning sky, 156. 
Foremost man, 79. 
I'orever fortune wilt thou prove, 

229. 
Forgetfulness, steep my senses in, 

67. 
Forgive, to, is divine, 198. 
Forgiveness to the injured does 

belong, 170. 
Forked radish, 67. 
Form, mould of, 108. 
Forms of government let fools 

contest. 190. 
Forms of things unknown, 41. 
Fortune, gift of, to be well-fa- 
vored, 37. 
Fortune, leads on to, 80. 
Fortune with threatening eye, 59. 
Fortune, pride fell with, 47. 
Fortune, railed on lady, 49. 
Fortune's buffets. 110* 
Fortune's cap. 105. 
Fortune's champion, 58. 
Fortune's ice, 168. 
Fortune's power, not now in, 163. 
Forty parson power, 340. 



INDEX. 



431 



Forty pounds a year, 248. 
Fought Ills battles o'er again, 166. 
Found out a gift for niy fair, 236. 
Fouutaiu troubled, 53. 
Fowl, tame villatie, 153. 
Foxes have holes, 16. 
Foxes that spoil the vines, 11. 
Fragments, gather up the, 20. 
Frailty, thy name is woman, 100. 
Framed to make woman false, 117. 
France, order this better in, 379. 
F'ree as Nature first made man, 

170. 
Free livers on a small scale, 391. 
Free, those who would be, 325. 
Freedom from her mountain 

height, 342. 
Freedom has a thousand charms, 

263. 
Freedom shrieked as Kosciusko 

fell, 304. 
Freedom to worship God, 343. 
Freedom's banner, 342. 
Freedom's battle once begun, 330. 
Freedom's soil, 342. 
Freeman, whom the truth makes 

free, 261. 
Freeman's vote, 361. 
Freewill, foreknowledge. 146. 
Freeze thy young blood. \Q3. 
Frenchman, the brilliant, 263. 
Frenchman's darling, 261. 
Fresh woods ami pastures, 156. 
Fretted the pigmy body, 167. 
Friend after friend departs, 303. 
Friend, house to lodge a, 184. 
Friend, kuolling a departing, 66. 
Friend, save me from my, 281. 
Friend, sticketh closer than a, 8. 
Friend, who hath not lost a, 303. 
Friend, .a favorite has no, 243. 
Friends and their adoption tried, 

101. 
Friends, backing of your, 62. 
Friends, her dear five hundred, 

259. 
Friend's infirmities, 80. 
Friends, not on my list of, 262. 
Friends, three firm, 301. 
Friendship but a name, 251. 
Friendship, cement of the soul, 

216. 
Friendship, constant, save in love 

affairs, 36. 
Friendship, ne'er knew joy, 209. 
Frog, thus use your. 3'i'i. 
Frolics, a youth of, 194. 
Front, his fair large. 148. 



Front of battle lower, 277. 
Frost, a killing, 74. 
Frosty but kindly, 49. 
Frosty Caucasus," 60. 
Frown at pleasure, 221. 
Fruit, kuowu by his. 16. 
Fruit of sense, 197. 
Fruit of that forbidden tree, 140 
Fruit that mellowed long. 171. 
Fruit, the ripest, first tails, 60. 
Fruitless crown, 93. 
Fuel to the flame, 153. 
Full fathom five, 29. 
Full many a flower, 241. 
Full many a gem, 241. 
Full of wise saws. 50. 
Full of strange oaths, 50. 
Full resounding line, 204. 
Full, without o'erflowing, 136. 
Fulmined over Greece, 152. 
Fun grew fast and furious, 274. 
Funeral baked meats, 101. 
Fury, abhorred shears of, 156. 
Fury, filled with, 244. 
Fury, full of sound and, 98. 
Fury of a patient man, 169. 
Fust in us unused, 113. 
Fustian so sublimely bad, 201. 

Gain, to die is, 23. 

Gale, note that swells the, 243. 

Galileo with his woes, 327. 

Gall enough in thy ink, 57. 

Gallantry with politics, 272. 

Galled jade, 110. 

Gallery critics, 258. 

Galligaskins long withstood, 237 

Galls his kibe, 114. 

Garden and greenhouse too, 259. 

Garish sun, 87. 

Garland and singing robes, 371. 

Garret, born in a, 337- 

Garter, host of the, 32 

Gath, tell it not in, 3. 

Gather up the fragments, 20. 

Gather ye rosebuds, 134. 

Gathered every vice, 206. 

Gatherer and disposer, 126. 

Gay, and innocent as gay, 219. 

Gay gilded scenes, 181. 

Gay Lothario, 185. 

Gazelle, a dear, 315- 

Gem of ray serene, 241. 

Gem of the sea, 319. 

Genius which can perish, 335. 

Gentle dulness, 205. 

Gentle, scan your brother, 275 

Gentle, yet not dull, 136. 



432 



Gentleman and scholar, 276. 
Gentleman, first true, 137. 
Gentleman, the prince of darkness 

is a, 82. 
Gentleman, who was then the, 

405. 
Gentlemeu who wrote with ease, 

203. 
Geography, despite of, 163. 
Geographers in Afric maps, 184. 
George, if his name be, 58. 
Get money, boy, 128. 
Get place and wealth. 128. 
Get thee behind me, 17. 
Ghost, like an ill-used, 216. 
Ghost, there needs no, 104. 
Ghost, vex not his, 84. 
Giant dies, tiiug but a stone, 225. 
Giant, as when a, dies, 35. 
Giants in the earth. 1. 
Giant's strength, excellent, 34. 
Gibbets, unloaded the, ''.4. 
Gibes, where be vour, 114. 
Gift for my fair. 236. 

Gifte gie us. wad some power 
the, 275. 

Gift horse in the mouth, 408. 

Gift of fortune, 37. 

Gild, refined gold, 59. 

Gilead, is there no balm in, 13. 

Gilpin, long live he. 264. 

Ginger hot in the mouth, 56. 

Girdle round about the earth. 40. 

Girls, again be courted, 254. 

Give every man thy ear, 102. 

Give it an understanding, 101. 

Give me a look. 127. 

Give me an ounce of civet, 83. 

Give me but what this ribbon 
bound, 130. 

Give neither poverty nor riches, 9. 

Give sorrow words, 96. 

Give the devil his due, 61 

Give thy thoughts no tongue. 101. 

Glare, maidens caught by, 324. 

Glare of false science. 256. 

Glass darkly, through a, 22. 

Glass of fashion. 108. 

Glass wherein the youth, 67. 

Glimpses of the moon, 103. 

Glory, alone with, 344. 

Glory and shame, 23. 

Glory and vain pomp, 74 

Glory dies not, 281. 

Glory obscured, 142. 

Glory of an April day, 30. 

Glory peep, into, 160. 

Glory, rush to, 305. 



Glory, set the stars of, 342. 

Glory, the paths of, 241. 

Glory, track the steps of, 535. 

Glory, trailing clouds of, 292. 

Glory waits, 317. 

Glory, walked in, 286. 

Glory's morning gate, 355. 

Glove, O that I were a, 85. 

Glow-worm, lend thee, 134. 

Glow-wornrs uneffectualfire, 104 

Gnat, strain at a, 18. 

Go and do thou likewise, 19. 

Go call a coach, 216. 

Go his halves, 366. 

Go. poor devil, 379. 

Go. Soul, the body's guest, 125. 

God all mercv, 220. 

Cod alone in*heaven, 334. 

lied Almighty's gentleman, 168. 

God and mammon, 15. 

God, had I but served my, 74. 

God helps them that help them 

selves, 377. 
God, just are the ways of. 153. 
God made the country, 257. 
God made this world so fair, 3u3. 
God moves in a mysterious way. 

265. 
God of mv idolatry, 86. 
Cod or devil, 168. 
God save the king, 215. 
God tempers the wind, 380. 
God the Father. Cod the Son, 224 
God the first garden made. 137. 
God, the noblest work of, 191. 
God-given strength, 310. 
Codlike reason, 113. 
Godliness, cheerful, 285. 
Cods, how he will talk, 175. 
God's providence estranged, 346. 
Gold, all is not, that doth golden 

seem, 407. 
Cold, all that glisters is not, 407. 
Gold, apples of. 9. 
Gold, bright and yellow, 348. 
Cold, gild refined, 59. 
Golden bowl, 11. 
Golden opinions. 91. 
Golden sorrow, 73. 
Golden story, 84: 
Good, all things work togethei 

for, 20. 
Cood as she was fair. 350. 
Coo 1. better made by ill. 3-50. 
Cood by stealth. 204. 
Good die first. 292. 
G«j< I for us to be here. 17. 
I Good, hold fast that which is, 23. 



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433 



Good in everything, 4S. 

Good, luxury of .loing. 246. 

Good men and true, 37. 

Good, men do, interred with their 

bones, 78. 
Good name better than ointment, 

10. 
Good name in man, 119. 
Good news bates, 153. 
Good-night to all, to each, 311. 
Good, noble to be, 353. 
Good old age, 1. 
Good old rule, 285. 
Good, pleasure, e;s?e, 190. 
Good sense, gift of Heaven, 195. 
flood set terms, 49. 
Good, some fleeting, 246. 
Good the gods provide thee. 166. 
Good the more communicated, 

149. 
Good time coming, 314. 
Good wine needs no bush, 53. 
Goodly sight to see, 324. 
Goodman Dull, 42. 
Goodness in things evil. 69. 
Goodness lead him not. 132. 
Goodness never fearful, 35. 
Goose-pen, write with a, 57. 
Gorgons and hydras, 146. 
Gory locks, 94. 
Government, forms of, 190. 
Government founded on compro- 
mise, 383. 
Gowns, fellow with two, 33. 
Grace beyond the reach of art, 

196. 
Grace, half so good a, 34. 
G*race. purity of, 331. 
Grace seated on his brow, 111. 
Grace, sweet and attractive, 28, 

148. 
Grace, the melody of every, 134. 
Grace, the power of. 304. 
Grace was in all her steps, 150. 
Graceless zealots. 190. 
Grandam, soul of our, 57. 
Grandmother Eve, 41. 
Graudsire cut in alabaster, 44. 
Grandsire phrase, 84. 
Graudsire skilled in gestic lore, 

247. 
Grapes, have eaten sour, 13. 
Grapple with hooks of steel, 101. 
Grass, all flesh is. 12. 
Grass, two blades grow, 1S4. 
Grasshopper shall be a burden, 11. 
Gratitude, still small voice of, 

240. 

28 



Gratulations flow in streams un- 
bounded, 215. 

Grave, botanize upon. 291. 

Grave, dread thing, 216. 

Grave, earliest at his. 365. 

Grave, glory leads but to the, 241. 

Grave, glory or the. 305. 

Grave, hungry as the, 22S. 

Grave, laid low in my, 58. 

Grave, Lucy is in her, 284. 

Grave, thou art gone to the, 322 

Grave to gay, 192. 

Grave, where is thy victory, 22 
208. 

Grave where Laura lies, 124. 

Grave, with sorrow to the, 1. 

Graves are pilgrim shrines, 359. 

Graves, dishonorable, 76. 

Graves stood tenantless, 99. 

Gray hairs with sorrow, 1. 

Gray mare the better horse, 408 

Great, far above the, 239 

Great in villany, 5S. 

Great is truth. 14. 

Great lord of all things, 188. 

Great, none unhappy but the, 222. 

Great, some are born, 57. 

Great thoughts, 345. 

Great vulgar, 138. 

Great wits jump,- 408. 

Greatness, and goodness, not 
means, 301. 

Greatness, farewell to all my, 73. 

Greatness some achieve, 57. 

Greece, and fulmiued over, 152. 

Greece, beauties of exulting, 228. 

Greece, but living Greece. 329. 

Greece, isles of, 338. 
I Grecian chisel trace, 312. 

Greek, naturally as pigs squeak 
161. 

Greek, small Latin and less, 128. 

Greek, to me, it was, 77. 

Greeks, when Greeks joined, 175. 

Green bay tree. 6. 

Green be'the turf. 358. 

Green old age. 171. 

Green pastures. 5. 

Greenland's icy mountains, 323. 

Greetings, where no kindness is, 
288. 

Grew like a double cherry. 40. 

Greyhounds iu the slips. 68. 

Grief, a plague of sighing and, 63. 

Grid', every one ran muster a, 37- 

Grief of my absent child, 59. 

Grief, of my distracting. 245. 

Grief, or gave his father, 209. 



434 



Grief, in a glistering, 73. 
Grief, that does not speak, 96. 
Griefs, some are med'einable, 81. 
Griefs that harass the distressed. 

232. 
Grieve his heart, 95. 
Grim-visaged war. 71. 
Grind the faces of the poor, 12 
Grinned horrible, 147. 
Groan, anguish poured his. 233. 
Groan, the knell, the pall, 358. 
Groans, thy old, ring yet, 86. 
Ground, on classic, 181. 
Ground, haunted holy, 325. 
Groves, God's first temples, 356. 
Grow wiser and better, 176. 
Growth, grows with his, 189. 
Growth of mother earth, 288. 
Grudge, ancient, 44. 
Grundy, what will Mrs., say, 281. 
Guardian-angel presiding, 349. 
Gudgeons, catched, 164. 
Guest, speed the going, 203. 
Guest, speed the parting, 210. 
Guide, philosopher, and friend, 

192. „ 
GuftKST blind, 18. 
Guinea, helps the hurt, 351. 
Guinea, within the compass of, 391. 
Guns, these vile, 61. 
Gipsies stealing children, 271. 

Habit, costly thy. 102. 

Habit, use doth breed. 31. 

Habitation, a local, 40. 

Habits, small. 269. 

Had we never loved, 278. 

Half our knowledge we snatch, 

103. 
Hail. Columbia. 282. 
Hail, holy light, 147. 
Hail, horrors, hail. 141. 
Hail to the chief. 312. 
Hail, wedded love, 149. 
Hair, beauty draws with a, 199 
Hair, dNtinsuish and divide, 161. 
Hair, ninth part of a, 64. 
Hair to stand on end, 103. 
Hairbreath"s 'scapes, 116. 
Hairs in amber. 201. 
Hairs of your head numbered, 16. 
Hal, no more of that. 63. 
Half better than the whole, 392. 
Halt between two opinions, 3. 
Halter draw. 270. 
Halter now fitted, 177 
Hamlet, at the close of the day, 



Hamlet, forefathers of the, 241 
Hammers closing rivets, 69, 182. 
Hand, against every man, 1. 
Hand beckons me away, 211 
Hand, can hold a fire in his, 60. 
Hand, cloud like a man's, 3. 
Hand, findeth to do, do it, 10. 
Hand in hand through life, 245 
Hand in his painted, 170 
Hand, leans her cheek uron. 85 
Hand, open as day, 67. 
Hand unlineal, 93. 
Handle not, taste not, 23. 
Handle 's but a ninny, 214. 
Hands, folding of, 7. 
Hands promiscuously applied 

Hands, shake, with a king, 359. 

Hands that rounded Peter's 
dome, 357. 

Hang a calf's skin, 58. 

Hang a doubt on, 120. 

Hang out our banners, 97. 

Happier than I know, 150. 

Happiness born a twin, 338. 

Happiness, if we prize. 245. 

Happiness our being's end, 190. 

Happiness, that makes the heart 
afraid, 347. 

Happiness through another's 
eyes, 52. 

Happiness too swiftly flies, 238. 

Happiness, virtue alone is, 192. 

Happy if I could sav how much, 
36. 

Happy soul, 133. 

Happy the man. 172. 

Harbingers to heaven, 138. 

Hard crab-tree. 162. 

Hark from the tombs. 225. 

Hark ! hark I the lark, 81. 

Harmony in her eye, 134. 

Harmony in souls, 47. 

Harmony of the universe, 381. 

Harmony, soul of, 158. 

Harness, dead in his, 15. 

Harness, girdeth on his, 3. 

Harness on our back. 98. 

Haroun, Alraschid. 353. 

Harp of a thousand strings, 225 
I Harp of Orpheus, 372. 
! Harp on Tara's walls. 316. 

Harping on my daughter. 105 

Harps upon the willows, 7. 
[ Harrow up thy soul. 103. 
j Hart ungalled play, 110. 
j Harvest of a quiet eye, 291 
I Harvest truly is plenteous, 16. 



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435 



Hast any philosophy in thee, 51. 

Haste thee, nymph, 157. 

Hasten to be drunk, 169. 

Hat not the worse for wear, 264. 

Hate in the extreme, 210. 

Hated, needs but to be seen, 189. 

Hated with a hate, 340. . 

Hater, a good, 234. 

Hating David, 168. 

Hatred, love turned to, 185. 

Haughtiness of soul, 179- 

Haughty spirit before a fall, 8. 

Haunt, exempt from public, 48. 

Haunts in dale, 302. 

Havock, cry, 78. 

Hawk from a hand-saw, 106. 

Hazard of the die, 73. 

He best can paint, 207. 

He comes too near, 213. 

He fears his fate, 139. 

He gave to misery, 243. 

He is paid that 's satisfied, 47. 

He jests at scars, 85. 

He knew what "s what, 161. 

He lives to build, 226. 

He may run that readeth, 14. 

He mourns the dead, 218. 

He prayeth well, 298. 

He raised a mortal, 167. 

He that complies, 165. 

He that doth the ravens feed, 48. 

He that has light, 154. 

He that hath ears, 18. 

He that hides a dark soul, 154. 

He that is down, 163. 

He that is not with me, 19. 

He that is robbed, 120. 

He that loves a rosy cheek, 129. 

He that runs may read, 262. 

He that will his health deny, 177. 

He that would not when he 

might, 254, 
He thought as a sage, 256. 
He who fights, 402. 
Head and front of, 116. 
Head, a useful lesson to the, 261. 
Head, hairs of your, 16. 
Head, native to the heart, 99. 
Head, off with his, 182. 
Head, one small, 249. 
Head, plays round the, 191. 
Head, repairs his drooping, 156. 
Head, to be let unfurnished, 161. 
Head, the hoary, 8. 
Head, uneasy lies the, 67. 
Heads, hide their diminished, 147. 
Heads', houseless, 82. 
Heads, sometimes so little, 374. 



Health, and competence, 191. 

Heap of dust, 209. 

Heard melodies, 343. 

Hearse, this sable, 128. 

Heart, an arrow for the, 340. 

Heart and lute, 321. 

Heart, as he thinketh in his, 8. 

Heart a transport know, 235. 

Heart awake to flowers, 317. 

Heart, a weed 's plain, 363. 

Heart, be not troubled, 20. 

Heart, comes not to the, 191. 

Heart distrusting asks. 250. 
| Heart felt along the, 287. 

Heart give lesson to the head, 261. 

Heart, heart of, 110. 

Heart in my hand, 29. 

Heart knoweth his own bitter- 
Heart, man after his own, 2. 

Heart, inerry , goes all the day, 54 

Heart, more native to, 99. 

Heart, music in my, 284. 

Heart, naked human, 219. 

Heart, never melt into his, 289. 

Heart, more native to the, 99. 

Heart of a maiden, 319. 

Heart on and up, 345. 

Heart on her lips, 333. 

Heart, of the abundance of, 16. 

Heart, overfraught, 96. 

Heart, ruddy drops of my sad, 77. 

Heart, sick by hope deferred, 7. 

Heart, tale to many a feeling, 300. 

Heart, untainted, 70. 

Heart upon my sleeve, 115. 

Heart, untravelled turns to thee, 
246. 

Heart which others bleed for, 185. 

Heart would fain deny, 97. 

Heart-ache, to say we end the, 107. 

Heartfelt joy, 191. 

Hearth, cricket on the, 157. 

Hearts, that human, endure, 232. 

Hearts beat high, 358. 

Hearts dry as summer dust, 292. 

Hearts in love use their own 
tongues, 36. 

Hearts lie withered, 318. 

Hearts pour a thousand melo- 
dies, 349. 

Hearts, steal away your, 79. 

Hearts, to live in, 305. 

Heartstrings, were my dear, 119. 

Heath, foot is on my native, 314. 

Heaven all tranquillity, 316. 
| Heaven around us, 317. 
| Heaven, before high, 34. 



436 



INDEX. 



Heaven, beholding, 315. 
Heaven, better to serve in. 141. 
Heaven, blessed part to, 75. 
Heaven commences. 248. 
Heaven doth with us, 33. 
Heaven drowsy, 42. 
Heaven, eve of, 60. 
Heaven first taught letters, 206. 
i leaven, floor of, 47. 
Heaven further off, 347. 
Heaven, gentle rain from, 45. 
Heaven, (jod seen in, 334. 
Heaven has no rage. 185. 
Heaven hath a summer's day, 136. 
Heaven in her eye, 150. 
Heaven invites. 218. 
Heaven, kindred points of, 288. 
Heaven lies about us, 292. 
Heaven, notaing true but, 321. 
Heaven of hell, 141. 

Heaven points an hereafter, 180. 

Heaven sends us good meat, 237. 

Heaven, smells to, 111. 

Heaven, so much of, 286. 

Heaven, spires point to. 294. 

i ,■ ■ . -j:> i 

Heaven, to be young was, 296. 

Heaven tries our virtues, 230. 

Heaven not heaven, 133. 

Heaven, winds of. 100. 

Heaven-directed, 194. 

Heavenly days, 285. 

Heavenly eloquence, 169. 

Heavenly hope, 322. 

Heavens blaze forth the death of 
princes, 77. 

Heaven's hand, argue uot against, 
159. 

Heavens, hung be the, 70. 

Heaven's pavement. 143. 

Hebrew in the dying light, 355. 

Heed, lest he fall. 22. 

Heel of the courtier, 114. 

Height of this great argument, 
140. 

Heir of all the ages, 352. 

Heir of fame. 159. 

Heir to. that flesh is, 107. 

Heirs unknown. l'J4. 

Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt. 
40. 

Hell, and feeling. 315. 

Hell breathes contagion, 111. 

Hell broke loose, 149. 

Hell I suffer seems a heaven, 148. 

Hell is paved with good inten- 
tions, 234. 

Hell, it is in, suing long to bide, 28. 



Hell, making earth a, 324. 

Hell, no fury like a woman 
scorned, 185. 

Hell of waters, 327. 
I Hell, riches grow in, 143. 

Hell, terrible as, 146. 

Hell, the fear o\ 275. 

Hell threatens, 218. 

Hell, to ears polite, 195 

Hell's concave, 142. 

Henpecked you all, 337. 

Hercules, than I to. 100. 

Here is the body pent, 303. 

Here lies our sovereign, 174. 

Here nor there, 121. 

Hereditary bondsmen, 325. 

Here 's to the maiden, 272. 

Heritage of woe, 336. 

Hermit, man the, 304. 

Hero, conquering conies, 175. 

Hero perish or sparrow fall, 186. 

Hero to his valet, 398. 

Herod, out-herods, 109. 

Heyday in the blood, 112. 

Hidden soul of harmony. 158. 

Hide their diminished heads. 147. 

High life furnishes high charac- 
ters, 193. 

High on a throne of royal, 144. 

High over-arched, 141, 151. 

Highly, what thou wou'dst, 90. 

Hill, a cot beside the, 349. 

Hills, heart beats strong amid, 345. 

Hills, o'er the, and far away, 212. 

Hills peep o'er hills, 190. 

Him of the western dome, 169. 

Hind mated with the lion, 54. 

Hinderance and a help, 284. 

Hinges, pregnant, of the knee, 109. 

Hint, upon this, I spake, 117. 

Hip, I have thee on the, 46. 

His faithful clog, 187. 

His life can't be wrong, 190. 

His time is forever, 138. 

Histories make men wise, 369. 

History is philosophy teaching by 
examples, 376. 

History, or by tale, 39 

History read in a nation's e5?S 
'242. 

History, this strange, eventful, 51 

Hit, a very palpable, 115. 

Hitches in a rhyme, 203. 

Hitherto shalt thou come, 5. 

Hoard of maxims preaching, 351 

Hoarse rough verse, 198. 

Hobson's choice, 396. 

Hog in Epicurus' sty, 350- 



INDEX. 



437 



Bold a candle, 214. 
Hole, Cse.sur might stop a, 114. 
Holidav-rejoicing sj.irit , 297. 
Holily,' what thou woukl'st, 90. 
Holy haunted ground, 325. 
Holy text she strews, 242. 
Holy writ, stolen from, 72. 
Homage vice,pays to virtue, 376. 
Home, best country is at, 246. 
Home is on the deep , 306. 
Home, man goeth tc his long, 11. 
Home no place like", 345. 
Home' )f the brave, 363. 
Home out of house and, 66. 
Home, sweet home. 345- 
Home to men's bosoms, 369. 
Home-bound fancy, 354. 
Home-keeping youth, 30. 
Homer, all tue books you need, 

175. 
Homes, near a thousand, 283. 
Honest man 's the noblest work, 

191. 
Honest tale speeds best, 72. 
Honesty, armed so strong in, 80. 
Honor and shame, 191. 
Honor, but an empty bubble, 166. 
Honor, Falstaff's catechism on, 

65. 
Honor grip, feel your, 275- 
Honor, jealous in, 50. 
Honor, loved I not, more, 135. 
Honor, new made, 58. 
Honor, prophet not without, 16. 
Honor, razed from the books of, 

122. 
Honor, the post of, 180. 
Honor, to pluck bright, 62. 
Honor 's lodged, place where. 164. 
Honors, gave to the world his, 75. 
Honors thick upon him, 74. 
Hooks of steel, 101. 
Hoop's bewitching round, 235. 
Hope deferred, 7. 
Hope, farewell, 148. 
Hope, Heeting as 'tis fair, 323. 
Hope for a season bade farewell, 

304. 
Hope, heavenly, is all serene, 322. 
Hope is brightest, 313. 
Hope never comes to all, 140. 
Hope, none without, 234. 
Hope, no other medicine but, 34. 
Hope springs eternal, 186. 
Hope, tender leaves of, 74. 
Hope told a nattering tale, 365. 
Hope, true, is swift, 73. 
Hope, while there 's life, 213. 



Hope withering fled. 332. 

Hopes belied our fears. 346. 

Hopes, like towering falcons, 178. 

Hopes, my fondest, decay, 315. 

Horatio, thou art as just a man, 
109. 

Horn, voice of that wild, 311. 

Horrible imaginings, 89. 

Horrors on horror's head, 121. 

Horrors, supped full with, 97. 

Horse, dearer than his, 351. 

Horse, flying, 288. 

Horse, gray mare the better, 407. 

Horse-leech hath twodaughters,9. 

Horse, my kingdom for a, 73. 

Horsemanship, witch the world 
with, 64. 

Hospitable thoughts intent, 150. 

Hostages to fortune, 369. 

Hot and rebellious liquors, 48. 

Hour of glorious life. 314. 

Hour of lover's vows, 330. 

Hour of virtuous liberty, 180. 

Hour, pensioner of an, 217. 

Hour, some wee short, 277. 

Hour, the wonder of an, 324. 

Hour, torturing, 144. 

Hour's talk, 41. 

Hours I once enjoyed, 265. 

Hours, unheeded flew, 307. 

Hours, wise to talk with, 218. 

House and home, 66. 

House, daughter of my father's, 
56. 

House, ill spirit so fair a, 29. 

House of feasting. 10. 

House, prop of my. 46 

House set iu order. 12. 

"House to be let for life, 131. 

Household words, 69. 

Houses, a plague o' both the, 87. 

Houses seem asleep, 289. 

Housewife that 's thrifty, 272. 

How are the mighty fallen, 3. 

How blessings brighten, 219. 

How charming is divine philoso- 
phy, 154. 

How failing are the joys, 176. 

How fleet is a glance, 265. 

How happy is he born, 126. 

How happy with either, 212. 

How hard their lot, 256 

How sleep the brave, 244. 

How small of all that human 
hearts endure, 232. 

How wags the world, 49. 

How we apples swim, 280. 

Howards, blood of all the, 191 



438 



INDEX. 



Hugged the offender, 169. 
Hum of army sound?. 69. 
Hum of mighty workings, 344. 
Human face divine, 147. 
Human race forget. 328. 
Human soul take wing, 336. 
Human, to err is. 198. 
Human, to step a<i te is, 275. 
Humanities of old religion, 301. 
Humanity imitated, 109. 
Humanity, sad music of. 288. 
Humanity, suffering sad. 361. 
Humanitv. wearisome condition 

of." 125. 
Humble livers in content, 73. 
Humble port. 280. 
Humility and modest stillness. 68. 
Humility, pride that apes, 299. 
Humor of it. 32. 
Hung be the heavens. 70. 
Hungry as the grave, 228. 
Hunt for a forgotten dream, 287. 
Hunter and the deer, a shade. 306. 
Hunting, the Devil designed. 172. 
Hunts in dreams. 351. 
Hurt cannot be much. 87. 
Hurt of the inside. 162. 
Hurt that honor feels, 351. 
Husband cools, never answers till 

her. 194. 
Husband, truant. 337. 
Husbandry, edge of. 102. 
Hush, mydearT lie still, 224. 
Hyacinthine locks, 14-. 
Hyperion to a satyr. 100. 
Hyperion's curls. 111. 
Hypocrisy pays to virtue, 376. 

I am his highness' dog. 210. 

I am not only witty, 66. 

I am Sir Oracle, 44. 

I ask not proud philosophy, 306. 

I can call spirits. 63. 

I can fly or I can run. 155. 

1 cannot eat but little meat, 123. 

I care for nobody, 183. 

I could not love thee dear so 

much, 135. 
t dare do all. 91. 
•I dare not*' wait upon "I 

would."' 91. 
I do not love thee Dr. Fell, 176. 
I give thee all, 321. 
I give thee sixpence. 281. 
I have found out a gift, 236. 
I hear a voice. 211. 
I know a bank. 40. 
I know not. I ask not. 319. 



I '11 make thee famous. 139. 

I must be cruel, 112. 

I owe you one. 279. 

I remember. I remember. 347. 

I smell a rat, 162, 409 

I was all ear. 165. 

I would not live alway, 4. 

Ice, be thou chaste »s. 10S. 

Ice in June. 334. 

Ice. thick-ribbed. 35. 

Idea of her life, 38. 

Idea, teach th'e voung. 227. 

Tde< of March. 76. 

Idiot, tale told by an, 98. 

Idle a- a painted ship. 298. 

Idler, busy world an. 259. 

Idler is a watch. 2 2 

Idolatry. God of my, 86. 

If all the world were young, 124 

If is the onlv peacemaker, 53. 

If it were done, 90. 

If part? allure thee. 191. 

Ignorance, burst in. 103. 

Ignorance is bliss, - 

Ignorance is the mother of devo- 
tion. 17". 

Ignorance of weal! 

Ignorantly read. 198. 

Ilium, topmost towers of, 124. 

Ill blows the wind. 403. 

Ill deeds. s$ght of. 59. 

Ill fares the land. 243. 

Ill-favored tiling, 52. 

I 11 go his halves. 366. 

Ill-used ghost, 216. 

Ill wind turns none to good, 408. 

Ills, bear those, we have. 108. 

His of life victorious. 274. 

Ills, prey to hastening. 248. 

Ills the scholar's life assail, 231. 

Illumine what is dark, 140. 

Illustrious predecessor. 382. 

Image cut in ebon 

Image of God in ebony. 374. 

Image of good Queen Bess. 343. 

Imagination all compact. 40. 

Imagination, can, boast hues like 
nature. 227. 

Imagination bodies forth, 40 

Imagination for his facts, 273. 

Imagination, study of. 38. 

Imagination, sweeten my, 83. 

Imaginings horrible. 89. 

Imbattled armies. 152. 

Immemorial elms. 353. 

Immodest words. 174. 

Immortal, as they (juote, 99% 

Immortal hate. 141. 



INDEX. 



439 



Tmmortal names, 358. 
Immortal though no more, 325. 
Immortal with a kiss, 124. 
Immortality, longing after, 180. 
Immortality quaff, 150. 
Immortals never appear alone, 

300. 
Imparadised in one another's 

arms, 148. 
Impeachment, the soft, 271. 
Impediment, marched without, 

73. 
Impediments in fancy's course, 55- 
Impediments to great enterprises, 

Imperfections on my head, 104. 
Imperial Caesar dead, 114. 
Imperial ensign, 142. 
Imperial theme, 89. 
Impious men bear sway, 180. 
Impious to be sad, 220. 
Importune, too proud to, 243. 
Impossible she, 135. 
Impossible, what is, can't be, 279. 
Impotent conclusion, 117. 
Imprisoned wranglers, 260. 
Impulse from a vernal wood, 290. 
In perfect phalanx, 142. 
In spite of nature, 162. 
Inactivity, masterly. 3S4. 
Incapable of stain, 145. 
Incarnadine seas, 93. 
Incarnation of fat. dividends, 359. 
Increase of appetite, 100. 
Indemnity for the past, 401. 
Independence let me share, 253. 
Independence now and forever, 



Index learning, 205. 
India's coral strand, 323. 
Indian, lo the poor, 187- 
Indocti discant et anient, 199. 
Indus to the Pole, 206. 
Infancy, heaven about us in, 292. 
Infinite deal of nothing, 44. 
Infinite in faculties, 106. 
Infirm of purpose, 92. 
Infirmities, a friend should bear, 

80. 
Infirmity of noble minds, 156. 
Influence, unawed by, 323. 
Ingratitude, unkind as man's, 51. 
Ingredient is a devil, 118. 
Inhumanity to man, 277- 
Ink, gall enough in. 57. 
Inn, take mine ease in, 64. 
Inn, warmest welcome at an, 236. 
Innocence and mirth, 333. 



Innocent as gay, 219. 
Innocent sleep," 92. 
Inordinate cup, 118. 
Insane root, 89. 
Insatiate archer, 217. 
Insides, carrying three, 282. 
Insolence of "office, 107. 
Instinct with music, 284. 
Instincts unawares. 345. 
Instruments to scourge us, 83. 
Insubstantial pageant, 30. 
Insults unavenged, 293. 
Intellectual power, 293. 
Intentions, hell paved with, 234. 
Intercourse, speed the soft, 206. 
Intolerable, not to be endured, 53. 
Intuition, passionate, 294. 
Inventor, plague the. 90 
Invisible spirit of wine, 118, 
Inward self-disparagement, 293. 
Inwardly digest, 26. 
Iron bars a cage, 135. 
Iron entered into his soul, 380. 
Iron, meddles with cold. 162. 
Iron tears down Pluto's cheek, 

157. 
Iron, with a rod of, 25. 
Is she not more than painting, 185. 
Isles of Greece, 338. 
Isles, ships that sailed for sunny, 

355. 
Itching palm, 79. 
Iteration damnable, 61. 
Ithuriel with his spoar 149. 
I 've lost a day, 218. 

Jade, let the galled, 110. 

Jails, the patron and the, 231. 

Janus, two-headed, 43. 

Jealousy, beware of. 119. 

.Jealousy, green-eyed monster,119. 

Jehu, like the driving of, 4. 

Jerusalem, if I forget thee, 7. 

Jesses were mv heart-strings, 119. 

Jest, and riddle of the world. 189. 

Jest and youthful jollity, 157. 

Jest be laughable, 43. 

Jest, his whole wit in a, 129. 

Jest, scornful, 232. 

Jests indebted to his memory, 273. 

Jest's prosperity, 43. 

Jew an Ebrew, 62. 

Jew, hath not a, eyes, 45. 

Jew, I thank thee, 46. 

Jew that Shakspeare drew, 210. 

Jewel, a precious, in his head, 48. 

Jewel in an Ethiop's ear. 85- 

Jewel of the just, 160 



440 



INDEX 



Jewel of their souls, 119. 
Jewels five words long, 352. 
Jews might kiss and infidels 

adore, 199. 
Jocund day, 87. 
John, print it, some said, 173. 
Joint, the time is out of, 105. 
Joke, dulness ever loves a. 205. 
Jollitv. tipsy dance and, 153. 
Jolly place in times of old. 286. 
Jonson's learned sock. 1-5^. 
Jot, nor bate a. 159. 
Journeys end in lovers' meeting, 

56. 
Jove laughs at lovers perjuries, 

85, 172. 
Jove, like a painted, 170. 
Jove, the front of, 111. 
Joy be unconfined, 326. 
Joy forever, 343. 
Joy, heartfelt, 191. 
Joy rises in me, 301. 
Joy. snatch a fearful, 238. 
Joy, the luminous cloud, 301. 
Joy, the oil of, 13. 
Joy turns at the touch of. 267. 
Joy which warriors feel, 313. 
Joyful school days, 297. 
Joyous prime, 27. 
Joys departed, 210. 
Joya faded like the dew, 304. 
Joys flow from ourselves, 215. 
Joys we dote upon, 176. 
Judean, like the base, 122. 
Judge among fooK '1'V.j. 
Judge not by appearance, 20. 
Judges, fool" with, 263. 

Judges the sentence -ign, 200. 

Judgment falls upon a man, 374. 

Judgment hoodwinked. 262. 

Judgments as our watches, 196. 

Judicious drank, 206. 

Judicious grieve. 10'J. 

Julius, ere fell the mightiest, 99. 

June, day in. 362. 

June, leafy month of, 298. 

June, seek ice in. 334. 

Juno's eyes, lids of, 54. 

Jury guiltier than hiin they try, 

Jurymen may dine. 200. 
Just are the ways of God, 153. 
Ju<t as the tsvig is bent, 193. 
Just hint a fault, 202. 



Just knows, and 



more. 



Justice, this even-handed, 9 ). 

Justice, unwhipped of, 82. 



Katerfelto with hair on end. 260 

Keep one parent from the sky. 202 

Keeper, am I my brother's, 1. 

Key that opes the palace of eter- 
nity, 153. 

Kick against the pricks, 20. 

Kick may kill a sound divine, 264 

Kick where houor ! s lodged. 165. 

Kid, he down with the leopard, 12. 

Kidney, man of my, 32. 

Kin, a little more than, 99. 

Kin, makes the whole world. 75. 

Kin, prohibited degrees of, 165. 

Kind, fellow-feeling makes one 
wondrous, 237. 

Kindle soft desire. 107. 

Kindness, milk of human, 90. 

King, anointed, 60. 

King, every inch a, 83. 

Kiii^r. here lies our sovereign, 174 

King, himself has followed her, 
252. 

King of day, 227. 

King of France went up a hill, 183. 

King of good fellows, 70. 

King of shreds and patches, 112 

King, served my, 74. 

King Stephen was a worthy peer. 

King, the conscience of the, 106. 
Kingdom for a horse. 73. 
Kingdom, my mind to me a, 254. 
King's crown, 34. 
King's name a tower of strength, 

Kings it makes gods, 73. 
Kings, sad stories of. tj',1. 
Kings, the right divine of, 205. 
Kings tyrants from policy, 381. 
Kiss, whole soul throug.i a, 352. 
Kiss, one kind. 23 I. 
Kiss to every sedge, 31. 
Kiss snatched hasty. 229. 
Kiss, with one long, 352. 
Kisses bring agiin. 35. 
Kisses, remembered. 353, 
Kitchen bred. 337. 
Kith nor kin, 254. 
Kitten, rather be a, 64. 
Knave, how absolute the. is, 114 
Knaves, untaught, 61. 
Knee, crook the hinges of the, 10S 
Knell overpowering. 340. 
Knell rung by fairy hands, 244. 
Knell that summons thee, 92. 
Knell, the shroud. 219 
Knew what 's what. 1 51. 
Knife, war to the, 324. 



INDEX. 



441 



Knight, can make a belted, 278. 
Knight's bones are dust. 300. 
Knock and it shall be opened, 16. 
Knock as you please, 209. 
Knock at my ribs, 89. 
Knotted and combined locks, 103. 
Know her was to love her, 350. 
Know then thyself, 188. 
Know ye the land, 331. 
Knowledge, according to, 21. 
Know-ledge is, ourselves to know, 

192. 
Knowledge is power, 369. 
Knowledge is- proud, 262. 
Known, to be forever, 137. 

Labor and intent study, 372. 

Labor, ease and alternate, 227. 

Labor for my travel. 75. 

Labor of love, 23. 

Labor we delight in. 93. 

Labor, youth "of. 248. 

Labored nothings, 197. 

Laborer worthy of his reward, 24. 

Laborers are few, 16. 

Laekof wit, 105. 

Ladies be but young and fair. 49. 

Ladies intellectual, 337. 

Ladies whose eves rain influence, 

158. 
Lady ; s in the case, 213. 
Lady protests too much. 110. 
Laid on with a trowel. 47. 
Lamb, God tempers the wind to 

the shorn. 3S0. 
Lamb, one dead. 361. 
Lamb, skin of an innocent, 70. 
Lamb to the slaughter, 13. 
Lamb, Una, with her milk white, 

291. 
Lamps in sepulchral urns. 263. 
Lamps shone o'er fair women, 325. 
Lame and impotent conclusion, 

117. 
Land, bowels of the, 73. 
Land flowing with milk, 2. 
Land, know ye the, 331. 
Land. light that never was on. 

292. 
Land, my own, my native, 309. 
Land of brown heath, 310. 
Land of scholars. 247. 
Land of the cypress and myrtle, 

331. 
Land of the free, 363. 
Land rats, 44. 
fuind, they love their, because it 

is their own, 359. 



Land, what heaven hath done for 
this, 324. 

Landscape tire the view, 229. 

Language, nature's end of. 222. 

Language, that those lips had. 
264. 

Language under the tropics, 138. 

Languages, feast of. 42. 

Lap it in Elysium, 154. 

Lap me in soft Lydian airs, 158. 

Lapland night, lovely as a, 288. 

Lards the lean earth. 62. 

Large streams from little foun 
tains flow. 282. 

Lark at heaven's gate sings, 81. 

Lass, drink to the, 272. 

Lasses, then she made the, 277 

Last at his cross. 385. 

Last link is broken, 365. 

Last, not least, in love. 78. 

Last of all the Romans. 80. 

Last rose of summer. 818- 

Last to lay the old aside. 197. 

Late, choosing and beginning, 151 

Late, known too, 85- 

Later star of dawn. 2S4. 

Latin no more difficile. 161. 

Laugh a siege to scorn. 97. 

Laugh of the vacant mind, 248. 

Laugh that win. 121. 

Laugh, the world's dread. 228. 

Laugh thee to scorn, 14. 

Laugh where we must. 186. 

Laugh, who but must, 202. 

Laughing soil. 322. 

Laughter holding both his sides, 
157. 

Lavinia. she is, 84. 

Law and testimony. 12. 

Law, love is the fulfilling of, 21. 

Law, nothing is. that is not rea- 
son. 379. 

Law, old father antic the. 61. 

Law, rich men rule the. 247. 

Law. seat of. is the bosom of 
God. 388. 

Law, seven hours to. 270. 

Law, sovereign, sits empress, 270 

Law which moulds a tear, 349. 

Law, windy side of the, 57. 

Lawful to do with mine own, 17. 

Laws grind the poor. 247. 

Laws of servitude, 170. 

Laws or kings can cure. 232 

Lay, go forth my simple. 269. 

Lay me down to sleep, 404. 

Lay on. .Macduff, 98. 

Leads to bewilder, 256. 



442 



Leaf, lade as a, 13. 

Leaf of pity writ, 88. 

Leaf, sear and yellow, 96. 

Lean fellow beats all conquerors, 

136. 
Leap, look before you, 164. 
Leaps the live thunder, 326. 
Learn of the Nautilus, 190. 
Learned dust, 259. 
Learned lumber, 198. 
Learned reflect, 199. 
Learning adjunct to ourself, 42. 
Learning, inflamed with, 373. 
Learning, little, dangerous, 196. 
Learning, whence is thy, 212. 
Learning wiser without books, 

261. 
Least of two evils, 178, 408. 
Leather or pruuello, 191. 
Leave her to heaven, 104. 
Leave no stone unturned, 392. 
Leave, often took, 177 
Leaves have their time to fall, 

342. 
Leer, assent with civil, 202. 
Left free the human will, 207. 
Legion, my name is, 18. 
Legs of time, 362. 
Leisure, retired, 156. 
Lemonade and black eyes, 321. 
Leopard change his spots, 13. 
Less, beautifully, 178. 
Less Greek, 128. 
Less of two evils, 178. 
Less than archangel, 142. 
Let dearly, or let alone, 131. 
Let dogs delight, 224. 
Let Newton be, 204. 
Let observation view, 231. 
Let others hail the sun, 237. 
Let the toast pass, 272. 
Let those love now, 212. 
Let those who always loved, 212. 
Let us do or die, 27*7. 
Lethe wharf, 103. 
Letters Cadmus gave, 339. 
Lexicon of youth, 350. 
Liar of the first magnitude, 185. 
Liberal education to love her. 378. 
Libertine, tile air a chartered, OS. 
Liberty and union, 387. 
Life but an empty dream, 360. 
Liberty, crimes in the name of, 

385. 
Liberty. I must have withal, 50. 
Liberty or death, give me, 383. 
Liberty's unclouded blaze, 359 
Library was dukedom, 29. 



License they mean when they cry 

liberty, 159. 
Lick the dust, 6. 
Licks the hand just raised, 186. 
Lids of Juno's eyes, 54. 
Lie direct, 53. 

Lie, nothing can need a, 132. 
Lief not be, as live to be, 76. 
Liege of loiterers, 42. 
Lies like truth, 98. 
Life a galling load, 276. 
Life a walking shadow, 98. 
Life at a pin's fee, 103. 
Life, best portion of a good man's, 



blandishments of, 183. 
■blood of our enterprise, 64. 
, care 'a an enemy to, 55. 



owded hour of, 314 

ilv lie; 
•ath in 



;her 



121. 

1st of, 26. 
is right, 137. 
: is, 213. 
s, 127. 



loathed, 35. 

nothing became him, like 

the leaving it, 89. 
of the building. 93. 
pleasant in the morning, 276. 
protracted, woe, 231. 



led With 



tedious 



deep, 

, 73. 
pun, 156. 

vice-told tale, 



Life, the wave of, 346. 

Life, the wine of, 93. 

Life, variety 's the since of, 259. 

Life was gentle. 80. 

Life, web of our, 55. 

Life while there 's hope, 213. 

Life's a jest, 213. 

Life 's a poor player, 98. 

Life 's but an empty dream, 360. 

Life's common way, 285. 

Life's dull round, 236. 

Life's enchanted cup, 325. 

Life's fitful fever, 94. 

Life's great end, 221. 

Life's morning march, 305. 

Life's poor play is o'er, 190. 

Life's tale, 300. 

Light a-foot, 86. 

Light, burning and a shining, 19. 



443 



Ught.casting a dim, religious, 157. 

Light fantastic toe. 157. 

Light for aftertimes, 297. 

Light heaven sheds, 318. 

Light in woman's eyes, 319. 

Light is sweet, 11. 

Light of a dark eye, 326. 

Light of hope, 3u5. 

Light of love, 331. 

Light of the Majonian star, 199. 

Light of the world, 15. 

Light seeking light, 41. 

Light, swift-winged arrows of, 265. 

Light that visits these sad eyes, 

240. 
Light that led astray, 277. 
Light that never was on sea or 

land, 292. 
Light, walk while ye have, 20. 
Light within his own breast, 154. 
Lights, burning, 19. 
Lights of mild philosophy, 179. 
Lights that mislead the morn, 35. 
Like a Ibrked radish, 67. 
Like a passing thought, 277. 
Like a wounded suake, 197. 
Like Aaron : s serpent, 189. 
Like angel's visits, 176, 305. 
Like, but oh ! how different, 288. 
Like following life, 193. 
Like the base Judean, 122. 
Like the dew on the mountain, 

312. 
Like, we shall not look upon his, 

101. 
Lilies of the field, consider the, 15. 
Lily, to paint the, 59. 
Limbs, recreant, 58. 
Limits of a vulgar fate, 239. 
Line he could wish to blot, 234. 
Line, in the very first, 251. 
Line too labors, 198. 
Line upon line, 12. 
Line, we carved not a, 344. 
Lineaments of gospel-books, 28. 
Linen, you ! re wearing out, 347. 
Lines fallen in pleasant places, 5. 
Link is broken, 365- 
Linked sweetness, 158. 
Linked with one virtue, 332. 
Lion among ladies, 40. 
Lion, beard the, 311. 
Lion-heart, lord of the, 253. 
Lion in the lobby roar, 401. 
Lion in the way, 9. 
Lion, lip of a, 68. 
Lion, living dog better than a 

dead, 10. 



Lion mated with the hind, 54 
Liou, the devil as a roaring, 25. 
Lion's hide, thou wear a, 58 
Lion's mane, dew-drop from, 75. 
Lip. anger of his, 57. 
Lip, coral, admires, 159. 
Lip, I ne'er saw nectar on a, 272 
Lip, vermeil tinctured, 155. 
Lips, had language, 264. 
Lips, heart on her, 333. 
Lips, smile on her. 311. 
Lips, steeped to the, 361. 
Lips suck forth my soul, 124. 
Lips, take away those, 35. 
Lips, tremble, 207. 
Lips were four red roses, 72. 
Lips were red, 133. 
Lips, when I ope my, 44. 
Liquid dew of youth, 101. 
Liquors, hot and rebellious, 48. 
Lisped in numbers, 201. 
Little foxes, spoil the vines, 11. 
Little learning dangerous, 196- 
Little leaven, 22. 
Little month, 100. 
Little more than kin, 99. 
Little one a thousand, 13. 
Live alway, I would not, 4. 
Live laborious days, 156. 
Live, taught us how to, 211. 
Live to piea-:e, must please to live, 

232. 
Live unseen, unknown, 208. 
Live while you live, 230. 
Live with them, less sweet, 318. 
Lively to severe, 192. 
Livery, evening in her sober, 148. 
Livery of heaven, 345. 
Lives, lovely and pleasant in their- 

3. 
Lives most who thinks, 354. 
Lives of great men, 360. 
Lo, the poor Indian, 187. 
Loan, loses itself and friend, 102. 
Lobster, boiled, like a, 164. 
Local habitation and a name, 40. 
Locks, hyacinthine, 148. 
Locks, never shake thy gory, 94. 
Lodge in some vast wilderness, 257 
Lodgings in unfurnished head, 

161. 
Lofty and sour, 75 
Loins be girded, 19. 
Long choosing, 161 . 
Long drawn aisle, 241. 
Long majestic march, 204. 
Longing after immortality, 180. 
Look, a lean and hungry, 77. 



444 



INDEX. 



Look before you leap. 123. 164. 
Look drew audience, 145. 
Look, longing, lingering, 242. 
Look not upon the wine, 8. 
Look on her face, 199. 
Look round the habitable world, 

171. 
Look upon this picture, 111. 
Looked and loved, 52. 
Looked unutterable things. 228. 
Looker-on here in Vienna, 36. 
Looking before and afrer, 113. 
Looks commercing with the skies, 

156. 
Looks, the cottage might adorn, 

250. 
Looks through nature, 192. 
Looks, with despatchful, 150. 
Looming bastion. 352. 
Loop-holes of retreat, 260. 
Loose his beard, 21U. 
Lord among wits, 263. 

Lord chasteneth, 24. 
Lord Fanny spins a thousand 
such, 203. 

Lord hath taken away, 4. 
Lord of -ill things, 188. 
Lord of folded arms. 42. 
Lord of himself, 126. 336. 
Lord of nature's work-. 27. 
Lord of thy presence, 58. 
Lord's anointed temple, 93. 
Lords of human kind. 247. 
Lords of ladies intellectual, 337. 
Lords, stories of great, 279. 
Lords, women who love their, 245. 
Lore, skilled in gestic, 247. 
Loss, promise to his, 26. 
Losses, fellow that hath had, 38. 
Lost, all save honor, 397. 
Lost, who neither won nor, 256. 
Loth to depart, 177. 
Lothario, gallant, gay, 185. 
Lot's wife, remember, 19. 
Loud surges lash, 198. 
Love, all ministers of. 299. 
Love, an unrelenting foe to, 229. 
Love and hate in like extreme, 210. 
Love and then to part, 300. 
Love at first sight, 124. 
Love, beggary in. 80. 
Love can hope, 234. 
Love cannot die. 296. 
Love casteth out fear, 25. 
Love-darting eyes, 155. 
Love, deep as first. 353. 
Love, ecstacy of. 105. 
Love endures no tie, 172. 



| Love, free as air, 207. 
Love, greater hath no man, 20. 
Love, if there 's delight in, 185. 
Love in every gesture. 150. 
Love in peace and war, 308. 
Love in such a wilderness, 307. 
Love in tears, 312. 
Love is a boy, 163. 
Love is heaven, 308. 
Love is light from heaven, 330. 
Love is the fulfilling of the law 

21. 
Love is the gift of heaven, 309. 
Love, tabor of, 23. 
Love, last not least in. 78. 
Love, let those now, 212. 
Love, live with me. and be my, 

124. 
Love looks not with the eyes, 39. 
Love lost between us. 252. 
Love, ministers of, 299. 
Love must needs be blind. 302. 
Love never did run smooth, 39. 
Love of life increased with years, 

267. 
Love of praise. 222. 
Love of women, 338. 
Love on through all ills, 316. 
Love, pity : s akin to, 181. 
Love prove variable. 86. 
Love, purple light of. 239. 
Love rules the court, 308. 
Love seeth with the heart, 302. 
Love, she never told her, 56. 

light is good. 57. 
Love the offender, 207. 
Love, the secret sympathy, 309. 
Love, the silver link. 300. 
Love thyself last. 74. 
Love to hatred turned, 185. 
Love to me was wonderful, 3. 
Love, true, is the gift of Heaven, 

309. 
Love tunes the shepherd's reed 

308. 
Love, wroth with one we, 299. 
Love 's like a red rose. 278. 
Love : s proper hue, 151. 
Love's young dream, 318. 
Loves, nobler, 291. 
Loved and lost, better to have. 352. 
Loved not wisely, 122. 
Loved to plead, lament, 310. 
Loved without hope, 234. 
Lovelier things have mercy shown, 

Loveliness needs no ornament, 
228. 



445 



Lovely in death, 219. 

Lovely in their lives, 3. 

Lover to listening maid, 356. 

Lover with a woful ballad, 50. 

Lover, why so pale, 133. 

Lover's perjuries, 85. 

Lovers love the western star, 
308. 

Lower, can fall no, 163. 

Lowly born, better to be, 73. 

Lucent sirups. 343. 

Lucifer, falls like, 74. 

Lucifer, son of the morning, 12 

Lucky chance, 228. 

Lucre, not greedy of filthy, 23. 

Lumber, learned, 198. 

Lunatic, lover, and the poet, 40. 

Lunes, old, 32. 

Lustre I ne'er could any see, 272. 

Lute, listened to a, 355. 

Luxury, blesses his stars and 
thinks it, 179. 

Luxury cursed by heaven's de- 
cree, 250. 

Luxury in self-dispraise, 293 

Luxury of doing good, 246. 

Luxury of woe, 321. 

Luxury to be, 300. 

Lydian airs, lap me in, 158. 

Lying, easy as, 111. 

Lying, this world is given to, 65. 

Lyre, each mood of the, 321. 

Lyre, waked to ecstasy, 241. 

Macassar, incomparable, 337. 
Macbeth does murder sleep, 92. 
Macduff, lay on, 98. 
MacGregor, my name is. 314. 
Machiavel had ne'er a trick, 165. 
Mad, an undevout astronomer is, 

222. 
Mad, pleasure in being, 171. 
Mad, that he is, 't is true, 105. 
Madden round the land, 200. 
Madden to crime, 331. 
Madness, great wits allied to, 167. 
Madness in the brain, 299. 
Madness lies that way, 82. 
Madness, method in it, 105. 
Madness, moody. 238. 
Madness, moonstruck, 157. 
Madness to defer, 217. 
Madness would gambol from, 112. 
Maeonian star, light of, 199. 
Magic numbers, 185. 
Magic of a name, 304. 
Magic of the miud, 332. 
Maid, the chariest, 101. 



Maid, none to love and praise, 

284. 
Maid, who modestly conceals, 

235. 
Maiden betrayed for gold, 310. 
Maiden meditation, 40. 
Maiden of bashful fifteen, 272. 
Maiden shame, blush of, 356. 
Maidens, like moths, 324. 
Maidens withering on the stalk, 

291. 
Maids who love the moon, 31 E 
Main chance. 164. 
Majestic silence, 322. 
Majestic, though in ruin, 145 
Make two lovers happy, 209. 
Making night hideous". 103. 
Making the green one red, 93. 
Malice, set down aught in, 122. 
Malice to conceal, 148. 
Mammon (and God) ye cannct 

serve, 15. 
Mammon, the least erected spirit, 

143. 
Mammon wins his way, 324. 
Man, a Christian is the highest 

style of, 220. 
Man, abridgment of, 251. 
Man a debtor to his profession, 

Man a fooi at forty, 218. 

Man, a proper, as one shall see, 

Man, a sadder and a wiser, 298 
Man after his desert, 106. 
Man after his own heart. 2. 
Man, all may do what has been 

done by, 221. 
Man, architect of his own fortune, 



Man, as good kill 



a book, 



Man bear his own burden, 23. 

Man, better spared a better, 65. 

Man, blind old, of Seio, 331. 

Man, broken with the storms of 
state, 75. 

Man, child is father of the, 283. 

Man, dare do all that may become 
a. 91. 

Man, what, dare, I dare, 94. 

Man, despised, old, 82. 

Man delights not me, 106. " 

Man dressed in a little brief au- 
thority, 34. 

Man, dull ear of a drowsy, 59. 

Man, expatiate free o'er all this 
scene of, 186. 



446 



Man forget not, though in rags 


Man, reading maketh the full, 


he lies, 237. 


369. 


Man, free as nature first made, 


Man recovered of the bite, 251. 


170. 


Man, remote from, 211. 


Man, give the world assurance of 


Man, scan your brother, 275. 


a, 112. 


Man shall not live by bread alone, 


Man goeth to his long home, 11. 


15. 


Man, good, old, 38. 


Man soweth, that shall he reap, 


Man, happy the, 172. 


23. 


Man hath always treasures, 301. 


Man, stagger like a drunken, 6. 


Man, he felt as a, 256. 


Man struggling in the storms of 
fate, 209. 


Man, honest, the nohlest work, 


196. 


Man, study of mankind is, 188. 


Man, I love not, the less, 328. 


Man, take him for all in all, 101. 


Man is born unto trouble, 4. 


Man, teach you more of, 290. 


Man is his own star. 191. 


Man, thankless, inconsistent, 218. 


Man is one world, 132. 


Man that blushes is not quite a 


Man is the nobler growth, 268. 


brute. 221. 


Man lay down his life, 20. 


Man that hails you Tom, 266. 


Man, let him pass for a, 44. 


Man that hangs on princes' fa- 


Man, little better than the wicked, 


vors, 74. 


61. 


Man that hath a tongue, 31. 


Man, little round, fat, oily, 229. 


Man that hath friends, 8. 


Man. living dead. 31. 


Man that hath no music, 47. 


Man made the town, 257. 


Man that meddles with cold iron, 


Man made us citizens, 363. 


162. 


Man makes a death. 220. 


Man, the foremost, of all this 


Man, maik the perfect, 6. 


world, 79 


Man, mildest mannered, 338. 


Man, the fury of a patient, 169. 


Man, mind the standard of, 225. 


Man, the good, never dies, 303. 


Man never is, but always to be 


Man the hermit sighed, 304. 


blest, 186. 


Man, the wisest, who is not wise 
at all, 283. 


Man, no, suddenly good, 368. 


Man, not good to be alone, 1. 


Mau, this is the state of, 73. 


Man. not passion's slave, 110. 


Man, this was a, 80. 


Mau not suddenly evil, 368. 


Man, thou art the, 3. 


Man of a cheese-paring, 67. 
Man of mettle, 226. 


Man to all the country dear, 248. 


Man under his fig-tree, 14. 


Man of morals, 138. 


Man, virtuous and vicious every, 


Man of my kidney, 32. 


must be, 189. 


Man of pleasure, man of pains, 


Man wants but little, 220, 251. 


221. 


Man, well-favored, 37. 


Man of Ross, 195. 


Man, what a piece of work is, 


Man of such a feeble temper, 76. 


106. 


Man of the world, 263. 


Man. what can an old, do but 


Man of unbounded stomach, 75. 


die, 347. 


Man of wisdom is the man of 


Man, where the good, meets his 


years, 221. 


fate, 219. 


Man of woe, not always a, 308. 


Man who turnips cries, 234. 


Man, old, eloquent, 159. 


Man, wished heaven had made 


Man, pity the sorrows of a poor 


her such a, 117. 


, old, 280. 


Man with him was God or deviL 


Man "pray eth well and best, 298. 


168. 


Man, 'prentice han' she tried on, 


Man with large gray eyes, 283. 


277. 


Man without a tear, 307. 


Man, press not a falling, 73. 


Man with soul so dead, 309. 


Man, profited, for what is, 17. 


Man, worth makes the, 191. 


Man proposes, God disposes, 366. 


Mane, hand upon thy, 329. 



INDEX. 



447 



Manichean god, 261. 

Mankind, men think their little 
set, 269. 

Mankind, surrey, from China to 
Peru, 281. 

Mankind, wisest, brightest, mean- 
est of, 191. 

Mankind's epitome, 168. 

Manna, his tongue dropped. 144. 

Manners, evil communications 
corrupt good. 22. 

Manners, of gentle. 209. 

Manners with fortunes, 193. 

Man's best things. 345. 

Man's first disobedience. 140. 

Man's house his castle-, 370. 

Man's inhumanity to man. 277. 

Man's love a thing apart, 338. 

Man 's as true as steel, 86. 

Man 's the gowd for a' that, 278. 

Mansions, in my Father's house, 
20. 

Mantle of the standing pool, 82. 

Many a time and oft, 45. 

Many are called, 17. 

Many-headed monster, 313. 

Many labor for the one, 332. 

Mar what 's well, 81. 

Marathon, gray, 325. 

Marathon looks on the sea, 339. 

Marble, sleep in dull, cold, 74. 

Marble to retain. 333. 

Marble with his name, 195. 

Marcellus exiled feels, 191. 

March, beware the Ides of, 76. 

March, in life's morning, 305. 

March is o'er the mountain waves. 
306. 

March, the stormy, 356. 

Marcia towers above her sex, 179. 

Mare, gray, the better horse, 407. 

Margin, a meadow of, 272. 

Mariners of England, 306. 

Mark, death loves a shining, 221. 

Mark the archer little meant, 314. 

Mark the perfect man. 6. 

Marlborough's eyes, 231. 

Marmion. the last words of, 311. 

Marred the lofty line. 310. 

Marriage bell, merry as a. 326. 

Marriage of true minds, 122. 

Marriage tables, 101. 

Married to immortal verse, 158 

Marry ancient people, 374. 

Mars, an eye like. 111. 

Marshal's truncheon, 34. 
Marshal'st me the way, 92. 
Martial cloak around him, 344. 



Martyrdom of John Rogers, 404. 
Martyrs, blood of the, 393. 
Mary hath chosen that good part. 

19. 
Mast, nail to the, 362. 
Mast of some great ammiral, 141 
Master Brook, think of that, 32. 
Master passion in the breast, 1S9 
Masters, spread yourselves, 3'i 
Master-spirits of this age, 78. 
Matter will re-word, 112, 
Mattock and the grave, 219. 
Maturest counsels dash, 144 
Maudlin poetess, 200. 
Maxims preaching down a daugh 

ter's heart, 351. 
May, chills the lap of. 246. 
May I govern my passion, 176. 
Maytime and cheerful dawn, 286. 
Maze, a mighty, 186. 
Maze, mirthful, 247. 
Mazes, wandering, lost, 146. 
Meadows brown and sear, 356. 
Meadows paint with delight, 43. 
Meadows trim with daisies pied, 

158. 
Meaner beauties of the night. 126. 
Means of evil out of good. 141. 
Means, the end justifies the, 178. 
Measure, to tread a, on the grass, 

42. 
Measures, not men, 252. 
Meat, I cannot eat but little, 123. 
Meats, funeral baked, 101. 
Meccas of the mind, 359 
Meddles with cold iron, 162. 
Medes and Persians, law of, 14. 
Medicine, miserable have no oth- 
er, 34. 
Medicine thee to sleep, 120. 
Medicine to make me love him, 

62. 
Meditation, fancy free, 40. 
Meditative spleen, 293. 
Meed of some melodious tear, 156. 
Meek eyed morn, 227. 
Meet-like a pleasant thought, 286, 
Meeting points the hair dissever 

200. 
Melancholy days, 356. 
Melancholy, green and yellow, 58 
Melancholy main. 229. 
Melancholy marked him, 243. 
Melancholy, moping, 151. 
Melancholy, most musical, 157. 
Melancholy of mine own, 52. 
Melodies, heard, are sweet, 343 
Melodies, thousand, 349. 



448 



[NDEX. 



Melodious tear, 156. 

Melody, crack the voice of. 352. 

Melody of every grace, 131. 

Mellowing of occasion, 42. 

Meilowing year, 155. 

Melrose, if tuou wouldst view, 

Melting mood, 122. 
Memory, dear .-on of. 159. 
Memory hoids a seat. 104. 
Memory indebted for Ms jests, 

in. 

Memory, morning star of. 330. 
Memory of all he stole. 305. 
Memory, pluck from tae. ■<!. 
Memory, table of my. li>4. 
Memory! throng into my. 153. 
Memory', ventricle of. is. 
Memory, Walton's heavenly. 290. 
Memory, warder of the brain. 91. 
Memory watc-ii.--. y.4. 
Men. all. have their price, 378.. 
Men, all things to aU, 22. 
Men are April when they woo, 52. 
Men are but children. ITU. 
Men. are you good and true. 37. 
Men, beneath the rule of, 350. 
Men, busy hum of, 153. 
.Men bv losing rendered sager. 

333. 
Men cradled into poetry, 341. 
Men. deceivers ever, 37. 
Men draw near their eternal 

home, 133. 
Men drawn as they ought to be, 

250. 
Men, fortv thousand went up a 

hill, 183. 
Men have died, not for love. 52. 
Men. impious. bear sway, 180. 
Men, in the catalogue, 93. 
Men. justify the ways of God to, 

140. ' 
Men, lives of great, remind us, 

360. 
Men, masters of their fates, 76. 
Men may live fools 22 
Men, moulded out of faults, 36. 
Men must be tau_ 
Men of inward lig ifc, 16e 
Men of sense approve. 193. 
Men only disagree, 146. 
Men remote from, 211. 
Men! rich, rule the law, 247. ___ 
Men! schemes of mice and. 275. 
Men, sleek-headed. 77. 
Men, some, to business take, 

194. 



Men that are fat, 77. 

Men, the evil they do lives after 

them, 78. 
Men think all men mortal, 218. 
Men think their little set man- 
kind, 269. 
Men. tide in the affairs of, 80. 
Men were deceivers ever, 37. 
Men, what, dare do, 38. 
Men, what other, think, 76. 
Men, when bad, combine, 332. 
Men who their duties know, 2 ;9. 
Men, world knows nothing of it3 

greatest, 354. 
Men would be angels, 187. 
Meu's business and bosoms. 369. 
Men's evil manners. 75. 
Merchants do congregate, 44. 
Merchants are prince-. 12. 
Mercy, a God all, 220. 
Mercy and truth are met, 6. 
Mercy, I to others show, 208. 
Mercy is not strained. 45. 
Mercy, nobility's true badge, 84. 

•ons justice, 46. 
Mercy, shut the gates of, 242. 

_ led farewell, 332. 
Mercy, temper justice with, 151. 
Mercy we pray for. 46. 
Merit, her. lessened yours, 235. 
Merit, molest men dumb on their 

own, 279. 
Merit, raised by. 144. 
Merit wins the soul, 200. ■ 
Merits, be kind to. 177- 
Mermaid, things done at the, 129. 
Merriment, flushes of. 114. 
Merry as the day is long. 36. 
Merry in hall when beards wag all, 

" 123. 
Merrv when I hear sweet music, 

" 47. 
Metal, more attractive, 110. 
Metal, sonorous, 142. 
Metaphysic wit. high as, 161. 
Meteor flag of England, 306. 
Meteor, streamed like a. 240. 
Meteor streaming to the wind, 

142. 
Method in madness. 105. 
Method of making a fortune. 243. 
Metre ballad-monger-. 64. 
Metre of an antique song, 122. 
Mettle, grasp it like a man of. 

Mewing his mighty youth. 373 



INDEX. 



449 



Mice, and such small Jeer. 82. 

Mice, best laid schemes of, 275. 

Mice, litMe, stole in and out, 132. 

Miching mallceho, 110. 

Middle age, 312. 

Midnight dances, 209. 

Midnight oil consumed, 212. 

Midnight revels, 143. 

Midnight shout and revelry, 153. 

Midst of life. 26. 

Mien, vice is a monster of so 

' frightful, 189. 
Might, he that would not when 

he, 254. 
Might say her body thought, 126. 
Mightiest in the mightiest, 46. 
Mighty, how are the, fallen, 3. 
Mighty minds of old, 297. 
Mile, measured many a, 43. 
Miles, travel twelve stoat, 283. 
Militia, rude, swarms, 169. 
Milk and water, 0, 333. 
Milk of human kindness, 90. 
Mill, brook that turns a, 349. 
Millions for defence, 3S5. 
Millions of spiritual creatures, 

149. 
Millions of surprises, 132. 
Millions ready saddled, 376. 
Millions yet to be, 358. 
Mill-stone about his neck, 19. 
Milton, mute, inglorious, 242. 
Blind, be fully persuaded in, 21. 
Mind, diseased, minister to a, 97. 
Mind, farewell the tranquil, 120. 
Mind, fleet is a glance of the, 265. 
Mind forbids to crave, 255. 
Mind, gives to her, what he steals 

from her youth, 235. 
Mind is its own place, 141. 
Mind is the standard of the man, 

225. 
Mind, laugh of the vacant, 248. 
Mind, magic of the, 332. 
Mind, Meccas of the, 359. 
Mind, men talk only to conceal 

their, 222. 
Mind, musing in his sullen, 27. 
Mind, noble, o'erthrown, 108. 
Mind, out of, out of sight, 125. 
Mind, she had a frugal, 264. 
Mind to me a kingdom is, 254. 
Mind to mind, 309. 
Mind, unconquerable, 285. 
Minds are not ever craving, 273. 
Mind's construction, 90. 
Mind's eye, Horatio, 101. 
Minds innocent and quiet, 135 



Minds that have nothing to con- 
fer, 284. 

Mine be a cot, 349. 

Mine host of the Garter, 32. 

Mine own, do what I will with, 17. 

Minions of the moon. 61. 

Minister, one fair spirit for my, 
328. 

Minister to a mind diseased, 9". 

Ministering angel, 311. 

Ministers of love, 299. 

Minnows, Triton of the, 76. 

Miracle instead of wit, 223. 

Mirror to a gaping age. 359. 

Mirror up to nature, 109. 

Mirth, and innocence, 333. 

Mirth grew fast and furious, 274. 

Mirth into folly, 314. 

Mirth, limit of becoming, 41. 

Mirth, string attuned to, 347. 

Mirth, you have displaced the, 94. 

Miserable comforters, 4. 

Miserable, no other medicine, 34. 

Miserable to be weak, 141. 

Miseries, in shallows and in, 80. 

Miser's pensioner, 291. 

Misery, a tear to, 243. 

Misery acquaints a man with 
strange bedfellows, 29. 

Misery, steeped to the lips in, 361. 

Misery's darkest cavern, 233. 

Mist of years, 324. 

Mistress of herself, tho' china fall, 
194. 

Misty mountain tops, 87. 

Mixture of earth's mould, 154. 

Moan of doves, 353. 

Mob of gentlemen, 203. 

Mockery of woe, 209. 

Morkerv, unreal, 94. 

Modes of faith, 190. 

Modesty, bounds of, 87 

Module of earth, 60. 

Moment, give to God each, 230 

Moments make the year, 223. 

Monarch of all I survey, 265. 

Monarchies, mightiest, 145. 

Monarchs, change perplexes, 142. 

Monastic brotherhood, 293. 

Money much as 'twill bring, 163 

Money, put in thv purse, 117. 

Money, still get, 128. 

Money the root of all evil, 24. 

Mongrel, puppy, whelp, 251. 

Monster, a faultless, 175. 

Monster, green-eyed, 119. 

Monster of the pit, 204. 

Month, a little, 100. 



450 



INDEX. 



Months without an R, 398. 
Monument, patience ou a, 56. 
Mood, listening, 312. 
Mood, that blessed, 287. 
Mood, unused to the melting, 

122. 
Moody madness, 238. 
Moon,auld,in her arms, 404. 
Moon, be a dog and bay the, 79. 
Moon, by yonder blessed, 86. 
Moon is made of green cheese, 

408. 
Moon looks on brooks, 317. 
Moon, pluck honor from the pale- 
faced. 62. 
Moon shine at full or no, 164. 
Moon, silent as the, 152. 
Moon sits arbitress, 143. 
Moon takes up the wondrous tale, 

181. 
Moon, that monthly changes, 86. 
Moon, the inconstant, 86. 
Moon 's an arrant thief, 88. 
Moonlight sleeps upon this bank, 

47. 
Moonstruck madness. 151. 
Moor, lady married to the, 291. 
Moral, to point a, 231. 
Morality expires, 206. 
Morality i< perplexed, 3S2. 
Wore blessed to give, 20. 
More in heaven than dreamt of, 

104. 
More in sorrow than anger, 101. 
More is meant than meets the ear, 

157. 
More safe I sing, 150. 
More sinned against, 82. 
More than kin, 99. 
More than painting can express, 

185. 
More than the Pope of Rome, 162. 
More tilings in heaven and earth, 

104. 
Morn and liquid dew, 101, 
Morn of toil. 312. 
Morn risen on midnoon, 149, 295. 
Morn to noon he fell, 143. 
Morn, tresses like the, 155. 
Morn with rosy steps, 149. 
Morning drumbeat circles the 

earth, 388. 
Morning stars sang together, 5. 
Morrow, good-night till, 86. 
Morrow, no thought for the, 16. 
Mortal, all men think all men, 

218. 
Mortal coil, 107. 



Mortal, through a crown's dis- 
guise, 237. 

Mortal to the skies, he raised a, 
167. 

Mortality, thoughts of, cordial to 
the soul, 375. 

Mortality 's too weak, 176. 

Mortals, some feelings are Co, giv- 
en, 312. 

Mortals, to command success, 179 

Motes that people the sunbeams 
156. 

Mother, happy he with such a, 353 

Mother in Israel, 2. 

Mother is a mother still, 300. 

Mother of arts a in I eloquence, 152. 

Mother, the holiest thing alive, 
300. 

Moth, the desire of the. 341. 

Moths, maidens like, 324. 

Motionless torrents, 300. 

Motley is the only wear, 49. 

Mould, ethereal, 145. 

Mould, mixture of earth's, 154. 

Mould of form, 108. 

Moulder piecemeal, 330. 

Mountain, robes the, 304. 

Mountain tops, misty, 87. 

Mountain waves, her march is 
o'er the, 306. 

Mountains, Greenland's icy. 323. 

Mountains make enemies, 257. 

Mounting in hot haste, 326. 

Mourn, lacks time to, 354. 

Mourned, the loved and, 327. 

Mourning, the oil of joy for, 13. 

Mousing owl, 93. 

Mouth, gift horse in the, 408. 

Mouth, out of thine own, 19. 

Mouth, put an enemy in their,118- 

Mouths a sentence, 256. 

Mouths of wisest censure, 118. 

Mouths without hands, 169. 

Muck, run a, 203. 

Multitude of counsellors, 7 

Multitude of sins, 25. 

Multitudinous seas, 93. 

Murder a specious name, 223. 

Murder, one, made a villain, 255. 

Murder, one to destroy, 223. 

Murder though it have no tongue, 
107. 

Murders, twenty mortal, 94. 

Murmurs, hollow, died away, 244 

Murmurs of running brooks, 291. 

Music, discourse most excellent, 
111. 

Music hath charms to soothe. 185 



INDEX. 



451 



Music, heavenly maid, 244. 

Music, his very foot has, 267. 
Music in my heart, 284. 
Music, instinct with, 284. 
Music, neeer merry when I hear, 

47. 
Music of her face. 134. 331. 
Music of humanity, 288. 
Music of running brooks, 291. 
Music of village bells, 261. 
Music slumbers in the shell, 349. 
Music, sphere- descended maid, 

244. 
Music the food of love, 55. 
Music, the man that hath no, 47. 
Music when soft voices die, 341. 
Music with euamel'd stones, 31. 
Music with its voluptuous swell, 

325. 
Musical as is Apollo's lute, 155. 
Musical most melancholy, 157 
Music's golden tongue. 343. 
Musing on companions, 310. 
Musing the fire burned, 6. 
Muskets aimed at duck or plover, 

270. 
Mute nature mourns, 309. 
Muttons, to return to our, 366. 
My Father made them all, 261. 
My father's brother. 100. 
My kingdom for a horse, 73. 
My native land, good-night, 324. 
My own my native land, 309. 
My poverty not my will, 88. 
My prophetic soul, 103. 
My sentence is for open, war, 144. 
My voice is still for war, 179. 
Myriads of rivulets, 353. 
Myrtle, cypress and, 331. 
Myself, in awe of such a thing as 

I, 76. 
Mystery, burden of the, 287. 
Mystery, heart of my, 111. 
Mystery of mysteries, 314. 

Naiad of the strand, 312. 

Naiad or a grace, 312. 

Naked human heart, 219. 

Naked to my enemies, 74. 

Naked villany, 72. 

Nail to the mast, 362. 

Name, a good, better than pre- 
cious ointment, 10. 

Name at which the world grew 
pale, 231. 

Name, deed without a, 95. 

Name, filches from me my good, 
119 



Name in print, 334. 
Name is Legion, 18. 
Name is MacGregor, 314. 
Name, local habitation and a, 40 
Name, mark the marble with his 

195. 
Name, Phoebus, what a, 335. 
Name, the magic of a, 304. 
Name, what 's in a, 85. 
Names, the few immortal, 358. 
Names which never were, 53. 
Naps, old John, 53. 
Narcissa's last words, 193. 
Narrow human wit, 196. 
Narrow isthmus, 315. 
Nathan said to David, 3. 
Nation, a small one a strong, 13. 
Nation exalted by righteousness, 

8. 
Nation, noble and puissant, 373. 
Nations drop of a bucket, 12. 
Nations, cheap defence of, 3S1. 
Nations, mountains make enemies 

of, 257. 
Native and to the manner born, 

102. 
Native hue of resolution, 108. 
Native wood-notes wild, 158. 
Natural in him to please, 167. 
Naturalists observe a flea, 184. 
Nature affrighted, recoils, 382. 
Nature and nature's laws, 204. 
Nature broke the die, 335. 
Nature cannot miss, 172. 
Nature, commonplace of, 286. 
Nature could no farther go, 172. 
Nature, extremes in, 195. 
Nature, force of, 172. 
Nature formed but one such, 335. 
Nature framed stnuige fellows, 43. 
Nature, the mirror up to, 109. 
Nature holds communion, 356. 
Nature. I do fear thy, 90. 
Nature, in spite of, 162. 
Nature is but art unknown, 188. 
Nature is suhdued to what it 

works in, 122. 
Nature is the art of God, 222. 
Nature lost in art, 245. 
Nature made thee to temper man, 

174. 
Nature made us men, 363. 
Nature might stand up, SO. 
Nature mourns when the poet 

Nature never did "betray, 288. 
Nature never lends her excellence, 



452 



INDEX. 



Nature, no compunctious visit- 

ings of, 90. 
Nature, no such thing in, 175. 
Nature, one touch of, 75. 
Nature sighing through all her 

works. 151. 
Nature subdued like the dyer's 

hand, 122. 
Nature, sullenness against, 372. 
Nature to advantage dre-se I. D7. 
Nature up to nature's God, 192. 
Nature, voice of, 242. 
Nature, who can paint like, 227. 
Nature's chief m.usterpiece, 175. 
Nature's cockloft empty, 375. 
Nature's evening comment, 290. 
Nature's journeymen. 109. 
Nature's noblemen, 229. 
Nature's own sweet cunning 

hand. 55. 
Nature's prentice hand, 277. 
Nature's second cour.-e, 92. 
Nature's soft nurse, 67. 
Nature's sweet restorer, 217. 
Nature's teachings, 356. 
Nature's walks, 186. 
Navies are stranded, 313. 
Nazareth, good come out of, 19. 
Neat-handed Phyllis. 158. 
Necessity, make a virtue of, 409. 
Necessity, tiie tyrant's plea, 148. 
Nectar on a iip, 2~,Z. 
Nectared sweet.-. 155. 
Need, deserted at his utmost, 166. 
Needful, one thing is, 19. 
Needle, true as the, 256. 
Needle true, like the, 267. 
Needle turns at touch, 267. 
Needless Alexandrine, 197. 
Neither here nor there, 121. 
Nestor swear, though, 43. 
Nests, birds of the air have, 16. 
Nests, no birds in last year's. 8 i j. 
Nettle danger, 62. 
Nettle, tender-handed stroke a, 

226. 
Never ending flight of days, 145. 
Never ending, still beginning, lb'6- 
Never-failing friends, 297. 
Never less alone, 349. 
Never loved sae blindly, 278. 
Never met or never parted, 278. I 
New-made honor, 58. 
New spangled ore, 156. 
News, bringer of unwelcome, 66. i 
Nicanor dead in his harness, 15. 
Nick, our old, 165. 
Night and chaos, 147 



Night and storm and 

326. 

Night, azure robe of. 342. 
Night, beauty like the, 336. 
Night, day brougat back my, 159 
Night, empty vaulted, 154. 
Night, endless. 239. 
Night foUows the day, 102. 
Xi_.it. f.dr good, 311. 
Night hideous, 103, 205. 
Nig.it. how beautiful is, 296. 
Night in Kussia. 33. 
Night joint laborer, 99. 
Night, meaner beauties of. 126 
Night of fearful dreams, 72. 
Night, silver lining on tne, 154. 
Nigat that fordoes me, 121. 
Night, upon the cheek of. .85. 
Night, witching time of, 111. 
Nightingale, music in, 31. 
Nightingale was mute! 355. 
Nightingale's note, 330. 
Nightly pitch my moving tent, 

Nights are wholesome, 99. 

Night's candles, 87. 

Nimshi, son of, 4. 

Ninth part of a hair, 64. 

Ninny, Handel 'a but a, 214. 

Niobe, all tears, 100. 

Niobe of nations, 327. 

No hammers fell, 322. 

No more of that, Hal, 63. 

No pent-up Utica, 323. 

No love lost, 410. 

No reckoning made, 104. 

Nobility, betwixt the wind and 

his, 61. 
Nobility's true badge, 84. 
Noble in reason, 106. 
Noble to be good, 254, a53. 
Nobler loves, and nobler cares, 

29] 
Noblest mind contentment has, 

27. 
Noblest Raman of them all, 80. 
Noblest work of God, 191. 
Nobody cares for me. 183. 
Nods a, id becks, 157. 
Noise of conflict, 150. 
Noise of endless wars, 147 
None but the brave, i66. 
None but the great unhappy. 222. 
None knew thee but to lore. 358. 
None without hope loved, 234. 
Nook, seat in poetic, 341 
Nooks to lie and read in, 341. 
Noon of thought, 268. 



L\DEX. 



453 



Noon, sailing on obscene wings, 

athwart the, 299. 
Noon to dewy eve, 143. 
North, unripened beauties of the, 

179. 
Norval, my name is, 245. 
Nose, nose, jolly red nose, 403. 
Not a stone tell where I lie, 208. 
Not dead but gone before, 349. 
Not in the vein, 72. 
Not of an age, 128. 
Not one immoral thought, 234. 
Not only hating David, 168. 
Not she with traitrous kiss, 365. 
Not to know me argues yourselves 

unknown, 149. 
Not to speak it profanely, 109. 
Not what we wish, 273. 
Note of preparation, 69. 
Note that sweUs the gale, 243. 
Notes, a c hiel 's amang you takin', 

275. 
Notes sweet by distance, 244. 
Noticeable man. 283. 
Nothing, an infinite deal of. 44. 
Nothing before, and nothing be- 
hind, 299. 
Nothing extenuate, 122. 
Nothing if not critical, 117. 
Nothing long, 168. 
Nourisher in life's feast. 92. 
Now came still evening. 148. 
Now fitted the halter, 177. 
Now morn with rosy steps, 149. 
Now 'a the day. 277. 
Nullum quod tetigit. 233. 
Numbers, divinity in odd, 32. 
Numbers, lisped in, 201. 
Nun, the holy time is quiet as a, 

289. 
Nurse of arms, 247. 
Nurse of manly sentiment, 381. 
Nursing wrath to krep it warm, 

274. 
Nutmeg-graters, be rough as, 226. 
Nymph, in thy orisois, 108. 
Nympholepsy of despair, 327. 

Oath, he that imposes an, 164. 
Oath, mouth-filling, 64. 
Obdured breast, 146. 
Obliged by hunger, 201. 
Obliging that he ne'er obliged, 

202. 
Oblivion, razure of, 38. 
Observance, the breach than. 102. 
Observations, ourselves make. 

193. 



Observed of all observers. 108. 
Obstruction, to lie in cold, 35. 
Occasion, mellowing of, 42. 
Ocean, a painted, 298. 
Ocean, deep bosom of the, 71. 
Ocean, I have loved thee, 329. 
Ocean leans against the land. 247. 
Ocean's mane, the, 344. 
Ocular proof. 120. 
Odd numbers, divinity in, 32. 
Odious in woollen, 193. 
Odors crushed are sweeter, 350. 
Odors when violets sicken, 341. 
O'er the glad waters, 332. 
O'er the hills, 212. 
Of all the girls, 216. 
Off with his head. 182. 
Offence from amorous causes, 199. 
Offence is rank, 111. 
Offender, she hugged the, 169. 
Office, hath but a losing, 66. 
Officer, fear each bush an, 71. 
Offices of prayer and praise. 292. 
Offspring of heaven's first-born, 

147. 
Oft in the stilly night, 320. 
Oh wad some power, 275. 
Oil, consumed the midnight, 212. 
Oily man of God, 229. 
Old age of cards, 194. 
Old familiar faces, 297. 
Old father antic, 61. 
Old friends are best, 374. 
Old Grimes is dead, 364. 
Old iron rang, 162. 
Old man, despised, 82. 
Old man do, but die, 347 
Old man eloquent, 159. 
Old men's dream, 168. 
Old Nick, 165. 
Old tale often told, 310. 
Old wood to burn, 396. 
Oliver, Rowland for an, 396. 
Omega, Alpha and, 25. 
On her white breast, 199. 
On life's vast ocean, 189. 
Once more unto the breach, 68. 
One fell swoop, 96. 
One for rhyme, 163. 
One for sense, 163. 
One is as God made him, 367. 
One kind kiss before we part. 230 
One line, could wish to blot, 234. 
One more unfortunate, 346. 
One murder made a villain, 255. 
One native charm, 250. 
One of those heavenly days, 285. 
One science for genius, 196 



4o4 



INDEX. 



One self approving hour, 191. 

One that hath, unto every, 18. 

One, the many must labor for 
the, 332. 

One touch of nature, 75. 

One when content, no more to de- 
sire, 367. 

Onward, bear up and steer right, 
151. 

Open rebuke, 9. 

Opinion still, of his own, 165. 

Opinions backed by a wager, 333. 

Opinions, golden, 91. 

Opinions, halt ye between two, 3. 

Opinions, stiff in, 168. 

Oppressor's wrong, 107. 

Optics sharp it needs, 270. 

Optics, turn upon 't, 165. 

Oracle, I am Sir, 44. 

Oracle of God, 140. 

Orator as Brutus, 79. 

Orators repair, 152. 

Orators, very good, 52. 

Orb in orb. 150. 

Order is Heaven's first law, 190. 

Order of your going, 95. 

Order this matter in Prance, 379. 

Ore, new-spangled, 156. 

Organ, most miraculous, 107 

Orient pearl, sowed the earth, 149. 

Ormu/, and of lnd, 144. 

Ornament to his profession, 369. 

Orpheus, soul of, 157. 

Orthodoxy is my doxy, 400. 

Othello's occupation 's gone, 120. 

Our acts our angels are, 129. 

Out, brief candle. 98. 

Out-lierods Herod, 109. 

Out of mind, out of sight. 125. 

Out of this nettle danger. 62. 

Outrun the constable, 163. 

Outward form and feature, 302. 

Over violent or over civil, 188. 

Overcome evil with good, 21. 

Owl, hawked at by a mousing, 93. 

Owl that shrieked, 92. 

Owlet atheism. 299. 

Own, do, what I will with mine, 17. 

Ox, better than a stalled. 8. 

Ox-lips and the nodding violet. 40. 

Oyster, then the world \s mine. 32. 

Oysters not good without an K in 
the month, 396. 

Pack, as a huntsman his, 251. 
Pagan suckled in a creed. 289. 
Pageant, insubstantial. 30. 
Paid well, that is satisfied, 47. 



Pain, a stranger yet to, 238. 

Pain, die of a rose in aromatic, 187 

Pain, heart that never feels a, 235. 

Pain is lessened by, 84. 

Pain, the labor we delight in phys- 
ics, 93. 

Pain, tender for another's, 238. 

Pain, to sigh yet feel no, 320. 

Pain, to smile in, 221. 

Pains, pleasure in poetic, 258. 

Paint the lily, 59. 

Paint them best, who feel them 
most, 207. 

Painted Jove, 170. 

Painter, flattering, 250. 

Painting, than, can express, 185. 

Palace and a prison, 327. 

Palace of the soul, 324. 

Palaces, gorgeous. 30. 

Pale cast of thought, 108. 

Pale-faced moon, 62. 

Pale his uneffectual fire, 104. 

Pale, prithee, why so, 133. 

Pale, unripened beauties, 179. 

Paliuurus nodded, 206. 

Palm, bear the. 76. 

Palm, like some tall, 322. 

Palmy state of Rome, 99. 

Palpable and familiar, 302. 

Palpable hit, 115. 

Palpable obscure, 145. 

Palsied eld, 34. 

Palter in a double sense, 98. 

Pangs of despised love, 107. 

Pangs of guilty power, 233. 

Pansies for thoughts, 113. 

Pantaloon, slippered, 50. 

Panting time, 252. 

Paper bullets of the brain, 37. 

Paper mill, 71. 

Paradise beyond compare, 303. 

Paradise of fools, 147. 

Paradise, opening, 243. 

Paradise, walked in, 355. 

Paradisaical pleasures, 243. 

Parallel, none but himself can be 
his, 182. 

Parchment undo a man, 70. 

Pard. bearded like the, 50. 

Parent of good. 149. 

Parents pissed into the skies, 264 

Parish church, way to, 50. 

Parson bemused in beer, 200. 

Parson, there goes the, 265. 

Partake the gale, 192. 

Parthenon, earth proudly wears 
the, 357. 

Parting is sueh sweet sorrow, 86 



INDEX. 



455 



Partitions thin their bounds di- 
vide, 188. 

Parts of one stupendous whole, 
188. 

Party, gave up to, what was meant 
for mankind. 250. 

Passages that lead to nothing, 
243. 

Passeth show. 100. 

Passing fair, is she not 31. 

Passing rich, 248. 

Passing >t range, 117. 

Passing thought, 277. 

Passiou, govern my, 176 

Passion, haunted me like a, 2S7. 

Passion is the gale, 189. 

Passiou. the ruling. 193. 195. 

Passion, till our, dies, 13/. 

Passion to tatters, 109. 

Passions fly with life, 296. 

Past all surgery, 118. 

Pastors, ungracious, 101. 

Pastures and fresh woods, 156. 

Pastures, he down in green, 5. 

Patches, a king of shreds and, 
112. 

Pate, you beat your, 209. 

Paths'of glory, 241. „. 

Paths of joy and woe, 245. 

Paths are peace, 7. 

Patience ana sorrow strove. 83. 

Patience, office to speak, 38. 

Patience on a monument, 56 

Patience, preacheth, 132. 

Patient merit, 107. 

Patient minister to himself, 97. 

Patines of bright gold, 47. 

Patriot's boast. 246. 

Pause, an awful, 217. 

Peace, all her paths are. 7. 

Peace and rest cau never dwell, 
140. 

Peace, first in, 385. 

Peace for the wicked, 13. 

Peace hath her victories, 159. 

Peace in the world, 320. ' 

Peace, in thy right hand, 74- 

Peace, solitude and calls it, 331. 

Peace nor ease of heart, 26i . 

Peace, piping time of, 72. 

Peace, slept in, 75. 

!V;ife when there is no, 13. 

Pealing anthem, 241. 

Pearl, sowed the earth with ori- 
ent, 149. 

Pearl, threw away, 122. 

Pearls at random strung, 269. 

Pearls before swine, 16 



Pearls did grow, how, 133. 
Pearls, who search for, 170. 
Peasantry, country's pride, 248. 
Pebbles, as gathering, 152. 
Pebbles on the sea-shore, 375- 
Peiops' line, 157. 
Pelting of this storm, '82. 
Pen from an angel's wing, 290. 
Pen, famous by my, 139. 
Pen mightier than the sword, 

350. 
Pen of a ready writer, 6. 
Pen, product of a scoffer's, 293. 
Penalties of idleness, 206. ' 
Pendulum, man thou, 327 
Pen "s a stanza, 201. 
Penned it down, 173. 
Pensioner, a miser's, 291. 
Pensioner of an hour, 217. 
Pensive discontent, 28. 
Pentameter falling in melody, 

300. 
People, thy, shall be my, 2. 
People's prayer, 168. 
People's right maintain, 323. 
Perdition catch my soul, 118. 
Perfect love, 25. 
Perfect woman, 286. 
Perfumes of Arabia, 96. 
Perfumes will not sweeten this 

little hand, 96. 
Peri at the gate, 315. 
Peril in thine eye, 85. 
Perilous edge of battle, 141. 
Perilous shot, 69. 
Perjuries, lovers', 85. 
Persian's heaven. 321. 
Persuaded, let every man be, 21. 
Persuasion ripened into faith, 

294. 



Persons, no respect of, 20 
Perverts the prophets, 335. 
Peter's dome, 357. 
Petticoat, feet beneath her, 132. 
Petty pace, 9S. 
Phalanx, in perfect, 142. 
Phantasma, like a, 77. 
Phantoms of hope, 232. 
Philistines be upon thee, 2. 
Philip and Mary, lt'5. 
Philip drunk. 391. 
Philosopher that could bear the 

toothache. 39. 
Philosophy, adversity's sweet 

milk, 87. 
Philosophy, dreamt of in your 

104: 



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456 



INDEX. 



Philosophy, false, and vain wis- 
dom, 146. 

Philosophy, hast any, in thee. 51. 

Philosophy, light of mild, 17y. 

Philosophy, proud. &J6. 

Philosophy, search of deep, 137. 

Philosophy, teaching by exam- 
pies. 376. 

Phoebus 'gins arise, 81. 

Phoebus, what a name. 335. 

Phyllis, neat-handed, 153 

Phyrric dauee. 339. 

Physic, take, pomp, 82. 

Physic to the dogs. 97. 

Physician, heal thyself, 18. 

Physician, is there no. 13. 

Pia mater, womb of, 42. 

Picture, look here upon this, 111. 

Pictures eyes make, 302. 

Pictures of silyer, 9. 

Piece, fauitlt^s. 1l«6. 

Pierian spring. 196. 

Pigmies are pigmies still. 221. 

Pigmy body, fretted to decay , 167. 

Pigs squeak, as naturally as. 161. 

Pilgrim shrines, 359. 

Pillar of State. 145. 

Pilot of the Galilean Lake, 156. 

Pinch, a lean-faced villain, 31. 

Pine with fear, 28. 

Piues. silent sea of, 300. 

Pink of courte- 

Pin*s fee, set my life at a, 103. 

Pinto, thou liar of the first mag- 
nitude. 185. 

Piny mountain, 302. 

Pipe for fortune's finger. 110. 

Piping time of peace, 72. 

Pitch, he that toueheth. 14. 

Pitch my moving tent, 303. 

Pitcher be broken, 11. 

Pitiful, 't was wondrous. 117. 

Pity, challenge double, 124. 

Pity gave ere charity began. 249. 

Pity, he hath a tear for, 67. 

Pity, leaf of. 88. 

Pitv melts the mind to love. 168. 

Pity of it. Iago, 121. 

Pity swells the tide of love. 219. 

Pity- the sorrows of a poor old 
man, 280. 

Pitv. then embrace, 189. 

Pity "s akiu to love. 181. 

Pitv 'tis, "tis true. 105. 

Place, jolly, in times of old, 286- 

Place that has known him. 4. 

Place where the tree falleth. 10. 

Places, lines in pleasant, 5. 



Plagiare among authors. 374. 
Plague o' both the houses, 87. 
Plague of all cowards, 62. 
Plague of sighiug, 63. 
Plague of such backing, 62. 
Plain as a pike-staff, 2o3. 
Plain tale, 63. 
Plan, the simple, 285. 
Planet, under a rhyming, 39. 
Plants, such in the earth, 133. 
Plato, thou reasonest well, 180. 
Play, as good as a, 397. 
Play the woman. 9b. 
Play to you is death to us, 160. 
Playmates I have had, 297. 
Plays round the head, 191. 
Play 's the thing. 106. 
Pleasantness, ways of. 7. 
Pleased, I woulddo what I, 367. 
Pleased to the last. 186. 
Pleased with the rattle. 190. 
Pleasure after pain 
Pleasure at the helm, 240. 
Pleasure in being mad. 171. 
Pleasure in poetic pains. _' 
Pleasure in the pathless woods 

328. 
Pleasure of being cheated. 164. 
Pleasure, she was bent on, 261. 
Pleasure, sweet is, after pain, 166. 
Pleasure to frown at, 221. 
Pleasure, with reason mixed, 250. 
Pleasures, dance attendance on, 

75. 
Pleasures, doubling his, 349. 
Pleasures, like puppies, 274. 
Pleiades, the sweet influence of. 5. 
Plentiful lack of wit, 105. 
Plenty o"er a smiling land, 242. 
Plodders, continual. 41. 
Plough along the mountain side, 

Ploughshares, swords into, 14. 
Plover, mu.-kets aimed at, 270. 
Pluck bright honor, 62. 
Pluck from the memory, 97. 
Pluck the flower safety, 62. 
Pluck up drowned honor, 62. 
Plucked his gown. 249. 
Piummet, deeper than. 30. 
Poet Biaring in the high reason 

of his fancy, 3.1. 
Poet, they had no, 204. 
Poetic fields. 181. 
Poetic nooks, 341. 
Poetic pains, a pleasure in. 258. 
Poe'icaL, I would the gods had 

made thee, 51. 



457 



Poetry, cradled into, 341. 

Poet's eye in a fine frenzy, 40. 

Poets fancy when they love. 185. 

Poets, iutelligible forms of, 301. 

Poets, in three distant ages. 172. 

Poets, who made us heirs, 291. 

Point a moral, 231. 

Point, put too fine a, 367. 

Poison for the age's tooth, 58. 

Poisoned chalice, 91. 

Pole, from Indus to the, 206. 

Pole, true as the needle to the, 256. 

Pomp, lick absurd, 109. 

Pool, mantle of the standing, 82. 

Poor always ye have, 20. 

Poor and content, 119. 

Poor, grind the faces of the, 12. 

Poor, laws grind the, 247. 

Poor naked wretches, 82. 

Poor, simple annals of the, 241. 

Poor, thou found'st me, 250. 

Pope of Rome, more than the. 162. 

Poppies, pleasures are like, 274. 

Poppy nor mandragora, 120. 

Porcelain clay of human kind, 
171. 

Porcelain of human clay, 339. 

Porcupine, like quills upon the 
fretful, 103. 

Port and Tokay, 280. 

Port for men. 234. 

Ports and havens, 60. 

Posteriors of this day, 43. 

Post of honor, private station, 180. 

Posy of a ring, 110. 

Pot. death in the, 4. 

Potations, pottle deep, 117. 

Potent, grave, and reverend seign- 
iors, 115. 

Povertv depressed, slow rises 
worth by, 332. 

Poverty nor riches, 9. 

Poverty, not my will, consents. 88. 

Poverty, steeped me in, 121. 

Poverty, the urn of, 345. 

Powder, food for, 65. 

Power and pelf, 309. 

Power, dissevering, 155. 

Power of grace, 304. 

Power of thought, 332. 

Power, take, who have the, 285. 

Power that made us, 363. 

Power the giftie gie us, 275. 

Powers that be, 21 

Powers that work for thee, 285. 

Prague's proud arch, 304. 

Praise, all his pleasure. 211. 

Praise, blame, love, 286. 



Praise, damn with faint, 202. 
Praise, named thee but to, 358. 
Praise, solid pudding against 

empty, 205. 
Praise, the garment of, 13. 
Praise, to be dispraised were no 

152. 
Praise undeserved, 405. 
Praising what is lost, 55. 
Pray, remained to, 249. 
Prayer, all his business, 211. 
Prayer ardeut opens heaven, 221, 
Prayer, the imperfect offices of, 

292. 
Prayer, whenever God erects a 

house of, 177, 410. 
Prayeth well, 298. 
Preached as never to preach again, 

173. 
Precept upon precept, 12. 
Precious bane, 143. 
Precious ointment, good name is 

better than, 10. 
Preparation, dreadful note of, 69. 
Presence full of light, 88. 
Present fears, 89. 
Press not a falling man, 73. 
Press, the people's right maintain, 

323. 
Prevaricate, thou dost, 162. 
Prey at fortune, 119. 
Priam's curtain, 66. 
Pricking of my thumbs, 95. 
Pricks, to kick against the, 20. 
Pride and haughtiness of soul, 179. 
Pride and pomp of glorious war, 

120. 
Pride, blend our pleasure or, 287. 
Pride fell with my fortunes, 47. 
Pride goeth before destruction, 8. 
Pride in their port, 247. 
Pride, reasoning pride, 187. 
Pride that apes humility, 299. 
Pride that licks the dust, 202. 
Pride, that perished in his, 288. 
Pride, the vice of fools, 196. 
Priests, tapers, temples, 207. 
Primal duties, 294. 
Primrose by a river's brim, 288. 
Primrose path of dalliance, 101 
Primrose, sweet as the, 250. 
Prince can make a belted knight 

278. 
Prince of darkness is a gentle- 
man, 82. 
Princedoms, virtues, powers. 150. 
Princes and Lords may flourish, 

■348. 



458 



Princes' favors, 74. 
Princes, sweet aspect of. 74. 
Principles with times, 193. 
Print, to see one's name in. 334. 
Prior, what once was Matthew, 

178. 
Prison, stone walls make not a, 

135. 
Privileged beyond the common 

walk. 219. 
Procrastination, thief of time, 217. 
Prodigal with a guinea, 391. 
Prodigal's favorite, 291. 
Product of a scoffer's pen. 293. 
Profession, every man a debtor to 

his 369. 
Profit where is no pleasure, 53. 
Progeny of learning, 271. 
Progressive virtue, 227. 
Prohibited degrees of kin, 165. 
Prologues, happy, 89. 
Promise, keep the word of, 98. 
Promise, to his loss, 26. 
Promises of youth, 232. 
Promotion, sweat for, 49. 
Proof, give me ocular. 120. 
Proofs of holy writ, 120. 
Propagate and rot, 189. 
Proper study of mankind, 188. 
Prophet not without honor, 16. 
Prophetic rav, 331. 
Prophetic soul, 103. 
Prophets, pervert the, 335. 
Proportion, curtailed of fair, 71. 
Propriety, frights the isle from 

her, 118. 
Prose run mad. 201. 
Prospect of belief, 89. 
Prospect, so full of goodly, 372. 
Prosperity, a jest's, 43. 
Prosperity, ail sorts of, 377. 
Prosperity assured us, 144. 
Proteus rising from the sea, 289. 
Proud to importune, 243. 
Proud waves be stayed, 5. 
Prouder than rustling in unpaid- 

for silk, 81. 
Prove all things, 23. 
Proverb and a by-word, 3- 
Providence alone secures, 265. 
Providence foreknowledge, 146. 
Providence their guide, 152. 
Prunello, leather or, 191. 
Psalms, purloin the, 335. 
Public credit, dead corpse of. 387. 
Pudding against empty praise, 

205. 
Pulse of life. 217. 



Punishment greater than I can 

bear, 1. 
Pun-provoking thyme, 238. 
Pupil of the eye, 321. 
Pure, all things pure to the, 24. 
Pure and eloquent blood. 120. 
Pure by being purely shone upon, 

315. 
Purge, and leave sack, 66. 
Puritans hated bear-baiting, 391. 
Purloin the psalms, 335. 
Purpose, nighty, 96. 
Purpose, infirm of, 92. 
Purpose, one increasing, 351. 
Purpose, shake my fell, 90. 
Purposes, airy, 142. 
Purse, put money in thy, 117. 
Purse, who steals my, 119. 
Pursue the triumph, 192. 
Push on, keep moving, 281. 
Pyrair'ds in vales, 221. 
Pythagoras, opinion of, 57. 

Quaff immortality, 150. 
Quality, a taste of your, 106. 
Quarefets of pearls, 133. 
Quarrel, entrance to, 102. 
Quarrel, hath his, just. 70. 
Quarrel in a straw, 113. 
Quarrel is a pretty quarrel. 271. 
Quarrel, sudden and <ruick in, 50. 
Queen Mab, 84. 
Question, that is the, 107. 
Questionable shape, l(i2. 
Quickly, well it were done, 90. 
Quiet, rural, 227. 
Quietus make with a bare bodkin, 

107. 
Quills upon the fretful porcupine, 

103. 
Quintilian stare, 159. 
Quips and cranks, 157. 
Quips and sentences, 37. 
Quivers, the Devil hath not in 

his, 342. 

Rabelais' easy-chair, 204. 
Race, boast a generous, 183. 
Race, forget the human, 328. 
Race is run, I bow to that whose,* 

237. 
Race not to the swift, 10. 
Race of other days, 359. 
Race of politicians put together, 

184. 
Race, rear my dusky, 352. 
Rachel weeping for her children, 

15. 



INDEX. 



459 



Rack of a too easy chair, 206. 
Rack of this tough world, 84. 
Radish, forked, 67. 

Haw of the vulture, 331. 
Rale, swell the soul to. 167. 
Raggedness, windowed. 82. 
Rags, the man forget not in, 237. 
Rail on the Lord's anointed, 72. 
Railed on Lady Fortune. 49. 
Raiu from heaven droppeth, 45. 
Rain iu the aire, 28. 
Rainbow, hue unto the, 59 
Rainbow to storms of life. 331. 
Rake among scholars, 263. 
Rake, woman is at heart a, 194. 
Ralph to Cynthia howls, 205. 
Rank is but the guinea's stamp, 

278. 
Rapt seraph that adores, 188. 
Rapt soul sitting, 156. 
Rapture on the lonely shore. 32S. 
Rapture-smitteu frame, 304. 
Rarity of Christian charity, 346. 
Rascal miked through the world, 

121. 
Rat, 1 smell a, 162. 
Rather than be less, 144. 
Rattle, pleased with a, 190. 
Ravelled sleave of care, 92. 
Raven do .vu of darkness, 154. 
Ravens, he that feedeth the. 48. 
Ravishment, enchanting, 154. 
Raw in fields. 169. 
Ray, with prophetic, 331. 
Razors cried. 267. 
Razure of oblivion, 36. 
Reach of art, 196. 
Read liomer once, 175. 
Read, mark, learu, 26. 
Read to doubt, 314. 
Rending m.iketh a full man, 369. 
Reading what they never wrote, 

259. 
Ready writer, 6. 
Real Simon Pure, 225. 
Realm, youth of the 71. 
Reap, as you sow, 164. 
Rea=on, a woman's. 30. 
Reason for my rhyme, 28. 
Reason, godlike. 113. 
Reason is staggered, 382. 
Reason, how noble in, 108. 

noble and most sover- 



Reason nor rhyme. 51, 409. 
Reason on compulsion, 63. 
Reason prisoner, takes the, I 
Reason stands aghast, 383. 



Reason the card, 189. 

Reason, the feast of, 203. 

Reason, the worse appear the bet- 
ter, 144. 

Reason with pleasure mixed, 250. 

Reasons are as two grains cf 
wheat, 44. 

Reason's whole pleasure. 191 

Rebels from principles, 381. 

Rebuke, open, 9. 

Reckoning, so comes a, 212. 

Recks not his own rede, 101. 

Recorded time, 98. 

Recording angel. 379. 

Red spirits and gray, 95. 

Rede, may you better reck the,276 

Reed, bruised, not break, 12. 

Reel to and fro, 6. 

Reform it altogether, 109. 

Regent of love-rhymes, 42. 

Regions change their site, 163. 

Relic of departed worth, 325. 

Religion blushing. 206. 

Religion, humanities of, 301. 

Remainder biscuit, 49. 

Remedies lie in ourselves. 54. 

Remedy, things without, 93. 

Remember Lot's wife, 19. 

Remember such things were, 96. 

Remember thy Creator, 11. 

Remembered kisses, 353. 

Remnant of uneasy light, 290 

Remorse, farewell, 148. 

Remote from man, 211. 

Remote, unfriended, 246. 

Render to all their dues, 21. 

Repentance rears her snaky crest, 
227. 

Report me right, 115. 

Reputation dies, 200. 

Reputation, in the cannon's 
mouth, 50. 

Resignation slopes the way, 248. 

Resolution, native hue of, 108. 

Resolved to ruin, 167. 

Respect upon the world, 43. 

Rest her soul, she is dead, 113, 

Restive sloth, 81. 

Retired leisure, 156. 

Retirement, rural quiet, 227. 

Retirement urges sweet return, 
151. 

Retort courteous, 53. 

Revelry by night, 325. 

Revelry, midnight shout and, 153. 

Revenge is virtue. 223. 

Reverence, none so poor to, 79. 

Revolts from true birth, 86. 



460 



INDEX. 



Rhyme nor reason, 51, 409. 

Rhyming peer, 200. 

Rialto, in the, 45. 

Rialto, under the, 333. 

Riband in the cap of youth, 113. 

Ribs of De ith, 155. 

Rich and rare, 317. . 

Rich and strange, 29. 

Rich gifts wax poor. 108. 

Rich man enter the kiugdom, 17. 

Rich men rule the law, 247. 

Rich, not gaudy, 102. 

Rich soils to be weeded, 370. 

Rich with the spoils of time, 241. 

Riches grow in hell, 143. 

Riches, neither poverty nor, 9. 

Riches of heaven's pavement, 143. 

Riddle of the world. 189. 

Rides in the whirlwind, 180. 

Rigdom funidos, 215. 

Ringed with curses dark. 156. 

Right divine of kings, 205. 

Right, his can't be wrong whose 
life is in the, 190. 

Bight, 1 see and approve the, 406. 

Righteous forsaken, 5. 

Righteous overmuch, 10. 

Righteousness and peace, 6. 

Righteousness exalteth a na- 
tion, 8- 

Ringing grooves of change, 352. 

Rings, all Europe, 159. 

Ripe and ripe. 49. 

Ripe scholar. 75. 

Ripest fruit first falls, 60. 

River glideth at his own sweet 
will, 289. 

River of his thoughts, 334. 

Rivets, hammers closing, 69. 

Rivulet of text, 272. 

Road, a rough, a weary, 276. 

Roam, where'er I, 246. 

Roar gently as any sucking dove, 

Robbed, he that is, 120. 
Robbed that smiles, 117. 
Robbing Peter, he paid Paul, 366. 
Robes and furred gowns, 83. 
Robes loosely flowing, 127. 
Rock aerial, 293. 
Rock from its firm base, 313. 
Rock the cradle of reposing age, 

202. 
Rocket, rose like a, 383. 
Rocks, caves, lakes, 146. 
Rod and thy staff, 6. 
Rod of empire, 241. 
Rod of iron, 25. 



Rod reversed. 155. 

Rod, spare the, 163. 

Roderick, a friend to, 313. 

Rogue, every inch not fool is, 169. 

Roll darkling down, 231. 

Roll of common men, 63. 

Roll on, thou ocean, 328. 

Rolls of Noah's ark, 168. 

Roman fame, abovj all, 203. 

Roman holiday, 327. 

Roman senate long debate, 179. 

Roman, than such a, 79. 

Romans call it stoicism, 179. 

Romans, countrymen, and lov- 
ers, 78. 

Romans last of all, the, 80. 

Romans, noblest, 80. 

Rome, falls, falls the world, 328. 

Rome, more than the Pope of, 162. 

Rome, palmy state of, 99. 

Rome, when at, do as Romans 
do, 394. 

Romeo, wherefore art thou, 85. 

Ron ne, to waite, to ride, to, 28. 

Roof fretted with golden fire, 105. 

Room, ample, aud verge euough, 
240. 

Room, who sweeps a, 131. 

Root of all evil, 24. 

Root of the matter, 5. 

Root that takes the reason, 89. 

Rnot, the axe is laid to the, 18. 

Rose, blossom as the, 12 

Rose by any other name, 85. 

Ro<e, happy is the, distilled, 39. 

Rose in aromatic pain, 1S7. 

Rose is fairest, 313. 

Rosebuds, gather ye, 134. 

Roses iron i your cheek, 235. 

Roses in December, 334. 

Roses, the scent of the, 318. 

Rosemary for remembrance, 113. 

Ross, the man of, 195. 

Rot and rot, 49. 

Rotten in Denmark, 103. 

Rough as nutmeg-graters, 226. 

Rough-hew them how we will. 114. 

Round unvarnished tale. 116. 

Roundabout, this great, 266. 

Rout upon rout, 147. 

Rowland for an Oliver. 396. 

Rub, ay, there 's the, 107. 

Rubies, where grew the, 133. 

Rubies, wisdom priced above, 5. 

Ruddy drops, dear as, 240. 

Rude am I in my speech, 116. 

Rude forefathers of the hamlet. 
241. 



INDEX. 



461 



Rude militia, 169. 

Ruffles when wanting a shirt, 

253. 
Ruin lovely in death, 219. 
Ruin, majestic though in, 145. 
Ruin or to rule the State, 167. 
Ruin upon ruin. 147. 
Ruin's ploughshare, 222. 
Rule, absolute, 148. 
Rule Britanuia, 229. 
Rule them with a rod of iron, 25. 
Rule, the good old, 285. 
Rules him, never shows she, 194. 
Ruling passion conquers reason, 

195. 
Ruling passion strong in death, 

193. 
Rumination, often, 52. 
Run a muck, 203. 
Ruu, he may, that readeth, 14. 
Rural quiet, 227. 
Rural sights, 257. 
Russia, a night in, 33. 
Rustic moralist, 242. 
Rustling in unpaid-for silk, 81. 

Sabbath, who ordained the, 362. 

Sack, intolerable deal of, 63. 

Sack, leave, 66. 

Sacrifice, turn delight into a, 132. 

Sad by fits, 244. 

Sad stories of the death of kings, 

60. 
Sad vicissitudes of things, 177. 
Sadder and a wiser man, 298. 
Safety, pluck this flower, 62. - 
Sage he stood, 145. 
Sage, he thought as a, 256. 
Sages' pride, 204. 
Sail, set every threadbare, 362. 
Sailing on obscene wings, 299. 
Saint in crape and lawn, 193. 
Saint sustained it, 209. 
Saint, 't would provoke a, 193. 
St. John mingles with my bowl, 

203. 
Saints, his soul is with the, 300. 
Sally in our alley, 216. 
Salt of the earth, 15. 
Salvation, no relish of, 111. 
Samphire gatherers. 83. 
Samson, the Philistines be upon 

thee, 2. 
Sang, it may turn out a, 275. 
Sans teeth, sans eyes, 51. 
Sapphire blaze, 239. 
Sappho loved and sung, 338. 
Sapping a solemn curd, 326. 



Satan exalted sat, 144. 

Satan finds some mischief 224. 

Satan, get thee behind me, 17. 

Satan, so call him now, 150. 

Satanic school. 296. 

Satire in disguise, 405. 

Satire or sense, 202. 

Satire "s my weapon, 203. 

Saucy doubts, 94. 

Sauntered Europe round, 206. 

Savage, wild in woods, 170. 

Savage woman, 352. 

Saviour's birth is celebrated. 99. 

Saw the air too much, 109. 

Scandal about Queen Elizabeth, 
271. 

Scarfs, garters, gold, 190. 

Scars, he jests at, 85. 

Scent of the roses, 318. 

Scent the morning air, 104. 

Sceptre, a barren, in my gripe, 93. 

Schemes, best laid, of mice, 275. 

Scholar, a ripe and good one, 75. 

Scholar among rakes, 263. 

Scholar and a gentleman. 276. 

Schoolboys at warning, 276. 

Schoolmaster abroad, 389. 

Science, falsely so called, 24. 

Science frowned not on his birth, 
242. 

Science, glare of false, 256. 

Science, O star-eyed, 305. 

Scio's rocky isle, 331. 

Scoff, came to. 249. 

Scoffer's pen, 293. 

Score and tally, 71. 

Scorn delights, 156. 

Scorn, fixed figure, for the time 
of, 121. 

Scorn, he will laugh thee to, 14. 

Scorn, laughed his word to, 262. 

Scorn looks beautiful. 57. 

Scotched the snake, 93. 
| Scourge inexorable, 144. 

Scraps of learning dote, 222. 

Scraps, stolen the, 42. 

Screw your courage, 91. 

Scripture, the Devil can cile. 44. 
I Scvlla, your father, 45. 
I S'death I "11 print it, 201. 
I Sea, alone, alone, on a wide, 298 
' Sea, first gem of the, 319. 
j Sea, into that silent, 298. 
1 Sea, light that never was on, 292 
i Sea, like ships that have gone 
down at, 316. 

Sea, mysterious union with the, 



462 



INDEX. 



Sea of pines, 300. 

Sea of troubles, 107. 

Sea of upturned faces, 314. 

Sea, swelling of the voiceful, 302. 

Sea, sunk in the flat, 154. 

Sea, the dark blue, 332. 

Sea, the open, 348. 

Sea-change, suffer a, 29. 

Sea-maid's music, 39. 

Seals of love, 35. 

Search of deep philosophy, 137. 

Sea's a thief, 88. 

Seas incarnadine, 93. 

Season, to everything a, 10. 

Seasoned timber, 131. 

Seasons and their change, 149. 

Seasons return with the year, 147. 

Seat, ascend to our native, 144. 

Seated heart, 89. 

Sect, slave to no, 192. 

Second childishness, 51. 

Secret of a weed's plain heart, 

363. 
Secret things belong unto the 

Lord, 2. 
Secrets of my prison house, 103. 
Sedge, kiss to every, 31. 
See her was to love her, 278. 
■See my lips tremble, 207. 
See oursels as others see us, 275. 
See the conquering hero, 175. 
See through a glass darkly, 22. 
See two dull lines, 223. 
Seed begging bread, 5. 
Seeds of time, 89. 
Seek and ye shall find, 16. 
Seems, madam, I know not, 99. 
Sees God in clouds, 187. 
Sees with half-shut eyes, 200. 
Seigniors, grave, and reverend, 

115. 
Seldom he smiles, 77. 
Seldom shall she hear a tale, 236. 
Self-slaughter, canon 'gainst, 100. 
Semprouius, we "11 do more, 179. 
Senators of mighty woods, 343. 
Sensations felt in the blood, 287. 
Sense, fruit of, 197. 
Sense, one for, 163. 
Seme, want of decency is want 

of, 174. 
Senses, steep in forge tfulness, 67. 
Sentence, he mouths a, 256. 
Sentiment, pluck the eyes of, 362. 
Sentinels fixed, 69. 
Sepulchres, whited, 18. 
Sermon, perhaps turn out a, 275. 
Sermon, who flies a, 132. 



Sermons in stones, 48. 

Serpent sting thee twice, 45. 

Serpent, trail of the, 315. 

Serpents, be ye wise as, 16. 

Servant can make drudgery di- 
vine, 131. 

Service, done the state some, 121. 

Service, sweat for duty, 49. 

Servile to skyey influences, 34. 

Servitude, base laws of, 170. 

Set free imprisoned wranglers, 
260. 

Set terms, 49. 

Set thine house in order, 12. 

Settle's numbers, lived in, 205. 

Seven hours to law, 270. 

Severn, Avon to the, 295. 

Sex to the last, 169. 

Shade, a more welcome, 211. 

Shade, ah, pleasing, 23b. 

Shade, boundless contiguity of, 
257. 

Shade, half in, 319. 

Shade, hunter and the deer, 306 

Shade of that which once wai 
great, 285. 

Shade, sitting in a pleasant, 125. 

Shade softening into shade, 228. 

Shadow, double, swan and, 285. 

Shadow, life is but a walking, 98 

Shadow proves the substance, 198 

Shadows, beckoning, 153. 

Shadows, best in this kind, 40. 

Shadows, come like, 95. 

Shadows of coming events, 307. 

Shadows, our fatal, 129. 

Shadows we pursue, 382. 

Shadwell never deviates into 
sense, 172. 

Shaft at random sent, 314. 

Shaft that made him die, 139. 

Shake hands with a king, 359. 

Shake my fell purpose, 90. 

Shake thy gory locks, 94. 

Shaken when taken, 279. 

Shakspeare, Fancy's child, 158. 

Shakspeare, rise, 128. 

Shakspeare's magic, 170 

Shakspeare's name, rival. 304. 

Shall I, wasting in despair. 130. 

Shame, an erring sister's, 330. 

Shame, blush of maiden, 356. 

Shame the fools, 201. 

Shames, thousand innocent, 38. 

Shape execrable, 147. 

Shape, if it might be called, l4ti 

Shape, such a questionable. 102 

Shape, take any, but that, 94. 



INDEX. 



463 



Shapes and beckoning shadows, 
153. 

Sharper than a serpent's tooth, 81. 

Shatter the vase, 318. 

She drew an angel down, 167. 

She is to blame. 213. 

She never told her love. 56. 

She walks in beauty, 333. 

She was a form of life. 330. 

She who ne'er answers, 194. 

Shears abhorred, 156. 

Sheeted dead. 99. 

She 's beautiful and to be wooed, 
70. 

Shell, convolutions of a. 293. 

Shell, music slumbers in the. 349. 

Shepherd, any philosophy in 
thee, 61." 

Shepherd tells his tale, 158. 

Sheridan, broke the die in mould- 
ing. 335. 

Shew, under saintly, 148. 

Shikspur, who wrote it, 280. 

Ship, idle as a painted, 298. 

Ship, that ever scuttled. 338. 

Ships are but boards, 44. 

Ships dim discovered. 227. 

Ships that have gone down at 
sea, 316. 

Ships that sailed for sunny isles, 
355. 

Shirt and a half in my company, 
64. 

Shirt, sending: ruffles when want- 
ing a, 253. 

Shock, sink beneath the, 330. 

Shocks that flesh is heir to, 107. 

Shoe has power to wound, 235. 

Shoe pinches, 393. 

Shoot, to teach the young idea 
how to, 227. 

Shore, dull, tame, 348. 

Shore, rapture on lonely, 328. 

Shore, wild and willowed. 308. 

Short measures perfect life, 127. 

Shot heard round the world, 357. 

Shot mv arrow o'er the house, 
115. 

Shot, perilous, 69. 

Should auld acquaintance, 276. 

Shouldered his crutch, 248. 

Shout, tore hell's concave, 142. 

Show his eyes, 95. 

Show, a driveller and a, 231. 

Show, which passeth, 100. 

<3how, world is all a fleeting, 321. 

Showed how fields were won, 248. 

Shreds and patches, 112. 



Shrewsbury clock, fought by, 66. 
Shrine of the mighty. 329. 
Shrines to no code, 359. 
Shuffled off this mortal coil. 107. 
Sbuun'st the noise of follv, 157. 
Shut, shut the door. 200.' 
Shut the gates of mercy, 242. 
Sickled o'er with pale cast ol 

thought. 108. 
Sides of my intent. 91. 
Sidney, warbler of poetic prose, 

"260. 
Siege to scorn, 97. 
Sigh, humorous, 41. 
Sigh no more, ladies, 37. 
Sisru. passing tribute of a, 242. 
Sigh, yet feel no pain. 320. 
Siirhed and looked again, 167. 
Signed and looked unutterable 

things. 228. 
Sighed to think I read a book, 

292. 
Sighing like furnace, 50. 
Sight, a goodly, to see, 324. 
Sight, loved not at first. 124. 
Sight of vernal bloom, 147. 
Sight, out of. out of mind, 125. 
Sign, dies and makes no. 70. 
Silence, come, then, expressive, 

229. 
Silence in love bewrays more woe, 

124. 
Silence, herald of joy, 36. 
Silence that dreadful bell, 118. 
Silence, the wings of, 154. 
Silence, ye wolves. 205. 
Silent cataracts, 300. 
Silent fingers point to heaven, 294. 
Silent sea of pines, 300. 
Siloa's brook, 140. 
Siloam's shady rill, 322. 
Silver cord be loosed. 11. 
Silver fruit-tree tops. 86. 
Simile solitary shines" 203. 
Simon Pure, 225. 
Simplicity a child. 209. 
Simplicity a grace, 127. 
Sin and death abound, 303. 
Sin could blight or sorrow fade, 

301. 
Sin, fools make a mock at, 7 
Sin, no, for a man to labor in his 

vocation, 61. 
Sin, wages of, is death, 20. 
Sin, who tell us love can die, 296 
Sinews of war, 395. 
Sinews, stiffen the, 68. 
Singing of birds is come, 11. 



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INDEX. 



Singing robes, 371. 

Single blessedness, 39. 

Sinking, alacrity in, 32. 

Sinned against, more, 82. 

Sins, charity shall cover the mul- 
titude of, 25. 

Sins, compound for, 162. 

Sion hill delight thee more, 140. 

Sir Oracle, 44. 

Sires, few sons attain the praise 
of their, 210. 

Sires, green graves of your, 357. 

Sirups, drowsy, of the world, 120. 

Sirups, lucent, 343. 

Sister spirit come away, 208. 

Sit attentive to his own applause, 
202. 

Sits the wind in that corner, 37. 

Six hundred pounds a year, 184. 

Sixpence, I give thee, 281. 

Skies, commercing with the, 156. 

Skies, raised a mortal to the, 167- 

Skill, is but a barbarous, 137. 

Skims along the main, 198. 

Skin and bone, 214. 

Skin of my teeth, 4. 

Skirmish of wit, 36. 

Sky, admitted to that equal, 187. 

Sky, canopied by the blue, 334. 

Sky, forehead of the niorniug, 
156. 

Sky, souls ripened in northern, 
268. 

Sky, star shining in the, 284. 

Sky, the storm that howls along 
the. 253. 

Sky, witchery of the soft blue, 
289. 

Skyey influences, 34. 

Slain, thrice he slew the, 166. 

Slanderous tongues, death by, 39. 

Slaughter, lamb to the, 13. 

Slaughter, to wade through, 242. 

Slave, base is the, that pays, OS. 

Slave to no sect, 192. 

Slave to till my ground, 258. 

Slavery a bitter draught, 380. 

Slavery or death, which to choose, 
179. 

Slaves, Britons never will be, 229. 

Slaves cannot breathe in England, 
258. 

Slaves, what can ennoble, 191. 

Sleep, blessings on him. that in- 
vented, 367. 

Sleep covers a man all over, 367. 

Sleep, exposition of, 40. 

Sleep, gentle sleep, 67. 



Sleep, he giveth his beloved, 6. 
Sleep in dull, cold marble, 74. 
Sleep is like a cloak, 367. 
Sleep knits up the ravelled sleave 

of care, 92. 
Sleep, last long, 269. 
Sleep no more, 92. 
Sleep, now I lay me down to, 404. 
Sleep of a laboring man, 10. 
Sleep of death, 107. 
Sleep, our life rounded with, 30. 
Sleep, six hours in, 270. 
Sleep, some must 'watch, while 

some must, 110. 
Sleep the frioud of woe, 296. 
Sleep the sleep that knows not 

breaking, 312. 
Sleep till angels wake thee, 233. 
Sleep, tired nature's sweet re- 
storer, balmy, 217. 
Sleep, undisturbed, 233. 
Sleeping in mine orchard, 104. 
Sleeping when she died, 346. 
Sleepless, give their readers sleep, 

205. 
Sleeps, till tired he, 190. 
Sleeve, my heart upon my, 115. 
Slept, thought her dying when 

she, 346. 
Slides into verse, 203. 
Slings and arrows, 107. 
Slippery place, 59. 
Slips, greyhounds in the, 68. 
Slits the thin spun life, 156. 
Sloth finds the down pillow hard, 

81. 
Slough of Despond, 173. 
Slow rises worth, 232. 
Sluggard, go to the ant, thou, 7. 
Sluggard, the voice of the, 225. 
Smack of observation, 58. 
Small habits, 269. 
Small Latin and less Greek. 128. 
Small sands the mountain, 223. 
Small things with great, 407. 
Smallest worm will turn, 71. 
Smell a rat, 162, 409. 
Smell, ancient and fish-like, 29. 
Smell sweet and blossoms in the 

dust, 135. 
Smell the blood of a British man, 

83. 
Smell, villanous, 32. 
Smells to heaven, 111. 
Smels, swete, al around, 27. 
Smile and be a villain, 104. 
S.nile from beauty won, 304. 
Smote the chord of self, 361 



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465 



Snake, wounded, 197. 
Soft impeachment, 271. 
Solid men of Boston, 270. 
Some livelier plaything, 190. 
Some said, John, print it, 173. 
Something in a Hying horse. 288. 
Something in a huge balloon. 2^8. 
Something too much of this, 110. 
Something wicked comes, 95. 
Sometimes counsel takes, 200. 
Son of Adam and Eve, 178. 
Son of his own works, 337. 
Son. two-legged thing a, 167. 
Song charms the sense, 146. 
Song, metre of an antique, 122. 
Song, no sorrow in thy, .279. 
Song of Percy and Douglass, 368. 
Song, perhaps a sermon, 275. 
Sonorous metal. 142. 
Sons of Belial, 142. 
Sons of their great sires, 210. 
Sophonisba, 0, 229 
Sophrano, basso, 333. 
Sore labor's bath, 92. 
Sorrow and I sit here, 58. 
Sorrow, earth has no, 321. 
Sorrow, her rent is, 131. 
Sorrow in battalions, 113. 
Sorrow, load of, 38. 
Sorrow never comes too late, 238. 
Sorrow of the meanest thing. 287. 
Sorrow, parting is such sweet, 86. 
Sorrow, pluck from the memory 

a rooted, 97. 
Sorrow returned with the morn, 

305. 
Sorrow, some natural, 284. 
Sorrow, than in anger, 101. 
Sorrow, to pine with feare and, 28. 
Sorrow, wear a golden, 73. 
Sorrows and darkness, 322. 
Sorrow's crown of sorrow, 351. 
Sorrow's keenest wind, 289. 
Sorrows of a poor old man, 280. 
Sorrows, transient, 286. 
Soul, a happy, 136. 
Soul, eye, and prospect of, 38. 
Soul, flattering unction to, 112. 
Soul, harrow up thy, 103. 
Soul is dead that slumbers, 360. 
Soul is form, 28. 
Soul is his own, 69. 
Soul is wanting there, 329. 
Soul is with the saints, 300. 
Soul like seasoned timber, 131. 
Soul, lose his own, 17. 
Soul, merit wins the, 200. 
Soul of music slumbers, 349. 

30 



Soul of Orpheus sing, 157. 
Soul of the age, 128. 
Soul, palace of the, 324. 
Soul, pride and haughtiness of,179. 
Soul smiles at the drawn dagger 

180. 
Soul, take the prisoned, 154. 
Soul take wing, 336. 
Soul, that eye was in itself a, 331. 
Soul, the fldw of, 203. 
Soul, the iron entered into his, 26. 
Soul, thou hast much goods, 19. 
Soul, to fret thy, with crosses, 28 
Soul through my lips, 352. 
Soul, uneasy and confined, 187. 
Soul under the ribs of death, 155 
Soul, unlettered, 41. 
Soul was like a star, 285. 
Soul, water to a thirsty. 9. 
Soul, whiteness of his, 326. 
Soul within her eyes, 333. 
Soul's calm sunshine, 191. 
Souls, corporations have no, 370. 
Soul's dark cottage, 138. 
Souls, all that were, were forfeit 

once. 34. 
Souls, immediate jewel of their, 

119. 
Souls made of fire, 223. 
Souls sympathize with sounds, 

261. 
Souls whose sudden visitations, 

354. 
Sound, an echo to the sense, 197. 
Sound and fury, 98. 
Sound, persuasive, 185. 
Sound, sweet is every, 353. 
Sound the clarion. 314. 
Sound the trumpet, 175. 
Sounding brass, 22. 
Sounds, melodious, on every side, 

372. 
Sour grapes, 13. 

Source of sympathetic tears, 239. 
South, o'er my ear like the sweet, 

55. 
Sovereign of sighs, 42. 
Sow by the ear, 410. 
Soweth, shall reap, as he, 23. 
Sown the wind, 14. 
Space and time annihilate, 209. 
Spades, emblem of untimely 

graves, 260. 
Spare the rod, 163. 
Spark of heavenly flame. 208. 
Spark of immortal fire, 330. 
Spark, vocal, 284. 
Sparkled, was exhaled, 220. 



466 



INDEX. 



Sparkling with a brook. 341. 
Sparks Uy upward. 4. 
Sparrow, eaters for the, 48. 
Sparrow fall, or hero perish, 186. 
Sparrow, in the fall of a, 115. 
'he card. 114. 
;gers to her, 111. 
Sp.-ak. if 1 have otfended, 78. 
Speak in public, 282. 
Speak it profanely, not to, 109. 
Speak of me ;t- I am. 122. 
Speak right on, 79. 
Spears int., pruning-hooks, 14. 
Special providence, 115. 
Spectiicles of books. 172. 

i - on nose, 50. 
Speculation in those eyes, 94. 

- silver, 409. 
Speech, rude am I in my. 116. 
Speech, thought deeper than, 364. 
Speech to disguise thought, 400. 
joing guest, 203. 

e pirting _' t. 210. 

soft intercourse, 206. 
Speed the thin oar, 190. 
Spenser, a Little nearer, 160. 

SpeUPcr renowned. 160. 

two stars in one, 65. 
Spider, crawling on my startled 
hopes, 182. 

Spider-' touch, 187. 

Spin, nor toil not. 15. 

Spin-- pointing to heaven, 294. 

Spirit chased, -i.j. 

Spirit dares stir, 99. 

Spirit ditties of no tone, 343. 

Spirit, hai _ 

Spirit, ill, hive SO f ur a house, 29. 

Spirit indeed i* willing, 18. 

Spirit thy. Indepeudeu e. 253- 

Spirit of every-day walks, 21s. 

Spirit of my dream. 334. 

Spirit of a youth. 81. 

Spirit, or more welcome shade, 

211. 
Spirit, present in, 21. 
Spirit, return unto Go 1. 11. 
Spirit-stirring drum. 120. 
Spirit strongest and fiercest. 144. 
Spirit that fell from heaven, 143. 
Spirit, the accusing. 379. 
Spirit wounded, 8. 
Spirit- are not finely touched. 33. 
Spirits either sex assume, 142. 
Spirits from the vasty deep, 63. 
Spirit- of great events, 302. 
Spirits twain, 364. 
Spite, in learned doctors, 359. 



Spite of nature, 162. 

Spleen, meditative, 293. 

Splendid sight to see. 324. 

Splenetive and rash, 114. 

Spoken at random. 314. 

Spoil the child. 163. 

Spoils belong to the victors, 389. 

Spoils of time. 241. 

Sponge, drink no more than a 

366. 
Sports of children, 246. 
Spot is cursed, the, 286. 
Spot which men call earth, 153 
Spots quadrangular, 260. 
Spread yourselves, 39. 
Sprightly running. 171. 
Spring, come, gentle, 227. 
Spring comes slowly up this way, 

299. 
Spring of love, 30. 
Spring unlocks the flowers. 322. 
Springes to catch woodcocks, 1<i2. 
Sp iting, do my. gently. 2!j. 
Spur to prick the sides of my in- 
tent. 91. 
Squadron in the field, 115. 
Squeak and gibber, 99. 
Squeak, as naturally as pig-'. 161. 
Stabbed with a white wench's 

eve. B6. 
Staff, thy rod and thy, 5. 
Stage, all the world 
Stage, poor, degrade I. 359. 

i- its his hou ■ up .n. 03. 
Stage, the wonder of our, 128. 
Stage, veteran on the. 231. 
Stage, where every man must 

play, 43. 
Stager-, old cunning, 163. 
Stairs, why did you kick me 

down. 183. 
Stale, Hat. and unprofitable, 100. 
Stalk, m ii lens withering on the, 

291. 
Stand and wait, 159. 
Stand not upon order of going, 95. 
Stand, a-tiptoe. 69. 
Stan ling with reluctant feet. 360. 
Stands Scotland, 96. 
Stanley, on. 311. 
Stanza, who pens a, 201. 
Staple of his argument, 42 
Star, constant as the northern, 78. 
Star, love a bright, particular. 

54. 
Star of dawn, a later, 284. 
Star of peace returns. 306. 
Star, of the moth for the, 341. 



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Star, stay the morning, 300. 

Star, thy soul was like a, 285. 

Star-eyed science, 305. 

Star-spangled banner, 363. 

Starry girdle of the year, 305. 

Stars, battlements bore, 293. 

Stars, blesses his, 179. 

Stars, cut him out in, 87.' 

Stars, fault not in our, 77. 

Stars, hide their diminished 
heads, 147. 

Stars in one sphere, 65. 

Stars, in spite of their, 162. 

Stars, shooting, attend thee, 134. 

Stars shot madly, 39. 

Star.? were more in fault, 175. 

Start of the majestic world, 76. 

Started like a guiltv thing, 99. 

Starts, everything by, 168. 

State, falling with a falling, 209. 

State, pillar of, 145. 

State, rule the, 167. 

State some service, 121. 

State, strange eruption to our, 99. 

State, what constitutes a. 269. 

State, without a king, 389. 

State's collected will, 270. 

States saved without the sword, 
350. 

Statesman, too nice for a, 250. 

Statue that enchants the world, 
228. 

Steal as gypsies do, 271. 

Steal ! convey, the wise it call, 32. 

Steal my thunder, 401. 

Steal us from ourselves away, 204. 

Stealth, do good by, 204. 

Steed, farewell the neighing, 120. 

Steed threatens steed, 69. 

Steel complete, 70. 

Steel, grapple with hooks of, 101. 

Steel, my man 's as true as, 86. 

Steel, though locked up in, 70. 

Steep and thorny way to heaven, 
101. 

Steep, hard to climb the, 255. 

Steep my senses, 67. 

Steeped me in poverty, 121. 

Steeple, looking at the, 338. 

Step above the sublime, 384. 

Stephen S.ly, 53. 

Steps, beware of desperate, 266. 

Steps of glory, 335. 

Sticking place, screw your cour- 
age to the, 91. 

Stiff in opinions, 168. 

Stiff thwack, 162. 

Stiiien the sinews, 68. 



Still achieving, still pursuing, 360. 

Still small voice, 3, 240. 

Still the wonder grew, 249. 

Still to be neat, 127. 

Still waters, 5. 

Sting, U death, where is thy, 22. 

Stir, the fretful, 287. 

Stoicism, the Romans call it, 179. 

Stoic of the woods, 307. 

Stolen, not wanting what is, 120. 

Stolen waters are sweet, 7. 

Stomach, unbounded, 75. 

Stomach's sake, a little wine for 

thy, 24. 
Stone, fling but a, 225. 
Stone tell where I lie. 208. 
Stoue, underneath this, 127. 
Stone unturned, leave no, 392. 
Stone walls do not a prison make, 

135. 
Stone, we raised not a, 344. 
Stones of Rome to mutiny, 79. 
Stones prate of my whereabout, 

92. 
Stones, sermons in, 48. 
^ tools, push us from our, 94. 
Storied urn, 241. 
Storied windows, 157. 
Stories, long, dull, and old, 279. 
Storm, directs the, 180. 
Storm, pelting of this pitiless, 82. 
Storm that howls along the sky. 

253. 
Storms of fate, 209. 
Storms of life, rainbow to the, 



of state, 75. 
Story, I have none to tell, 281. 
Story of Cambuscan bold, 157. 
Stout once a month, 169. 
Straining harsh discords, 87. 
Strains that might create a soul, 

155. 
Strange eruption, 99. 
Strange, 't was passing, 117. 
Stranger in a, strange land, 2. 
Stranger than fiction, 340. 
Stranger yet to pain, 238. 
Strangers, by, honored, 208. 
Strangers, to entertain. 24. 
Straw, tickled with a, 190. 
Strawberries, 371. 
Streets, a lion is in the, 9. 
Streets, squeak and gibber in the, 

Strength, to have a giant's, 34. 
Strength, a tower of, 73. 
Strength, lovely in your, 326. 



468 



IXDLX. 



Strength, strengthens with his. 

189. 
Strife, dare the elements to, 3-32. 
Strike for your altar.-. 357. 
Strike mine eyes but not my 

heart, 127. 
String attuned to mirth. 347. 
Striving to better, we mar. 81. 
Strong, battle not to the, 10. 
Strong upon the stronger side, 58. 
Strong without rage, 136. 
Stronger by weakness, 138. 
Strongly it bears us, 299. 
Strucken deer, go weep, 110. 
Struggling in the storms of fate, 

209. 
Stubborn patience. 146. 
Studies, still air of delightful. 372. 
Studious of change, 257. 
Study, labor and iuteut, 372. 
Study of imagination. 38. 
Study of mankind, 188. 
Study of revenge, 141. 
Study, weariness of flesh, 11. 
Study what you most affect, 53. 
Stuff, ambition 's made of 

sterner, 78. 
StuS as dreams are made of, 30. 
Stuff life is made of. 377. 
Stuff, other mens. 136. 
Stuff the head with reading, 205. 
Subject of all verse, 1^:. 
Sublime and the ridiculous, 384. 
Sublime to suffer, 3'5U. 
Success, 'tis not in mortals to 

command, 179. 
Successive title, 168. 
Succes-ors before him, 31. 
Such mistress, such Nan, 123. 
Suck my last breath, 207. 
Suckle fools, 117. 
Sucking-dove, gently as any, 39. 
Suffer a sea-change, 29. 
Suffer, how sublime to, 360. 
Sufferance, our badge, 45. 
Suffering, child of, 362. 
Suffering ended with the dav, 

ass. 

Sufferings, to each his, 238. 

Sufficiency, an elegant, 227. 

Sufficient unto the day, 16. 

Suing long to bide. 28. 

Suit lightly won, 310. 

Suit of sables, 110. 

Suit the action to the word, 109. 

Sullein mind, 27. 

Sullenness against nature, 372. 

Sum of more, giving thy, 48. 



Summer, eternal. 339. 
Summer friends, 131. 
Summer, made glorious, 71. 
Summer of jour youth, 235- 
summer's cloud. 95. 
Summons, upon a fearful, 99. 
Sun, a thief, 88. 
Sun, all except their, is set. 339. 
Sun. as the dial to the, 1 
Sun, bei.ighted walks uuder the. 

154. 
Sun, dedicate his beautv to the 

84. 
Sun, doubt the, doth move. 105. 
Sun, farthing candle to the. 223. 
Sun, glimmering taper to the, 

273. 
Sun, go down upon your wrath, 

23. 
Sun goes round, take all the rest 

the, 139. 
Sun, hail the rising, 237. 
Sun, half in, 319. 
Sun in my dominion never sets, 

Sun in the lap of Thetis, 163. 

Sun low descending. 406. 

Sun, no new thing under the, 9. 

sun of righteousness, arise, 14. 

Sun passes through dirty places, 
370. 

Sun, pleasant for the eye to be- 
hold the, 11. 

Sun, till it meet the, 388. 

Sun upon an Easter day. 132. 

Sun, world without a, 304. 

sunbeam, and truth. 372. 

Sunday from the week divide, 99. 

Sunday shines no Sabbath day 
to me, 200. 

Sunflower turns on her god, 317. 

sung ballads from a cart, 172. 

Sunium's marbled steep. 339. 

sunlight drinketh dew, 352. 

Sunny as her skies, 333. 

Sunny openings, .341. 

Suns, process of the, 352. 

Sunset of life, 307. 

Sunshine broken in the rill, 315. 

Sunshine, eternal, 249. 

Sunshine made, in the shadj 
place. 27. 

Sunshine of the breast, 238. 

Superfluous lags the veteran , 231 

Supped full of horrors, 97. 

surcease, success, 90. 

Surer to prosper, 144. 

Survey our empire, 332. 



469 



Suspicion, Caesar's wife above, | 

Suspicion haunts the guilty mind. 

Swan and shadow, 2S5. 
Swan of Avon, 128. 
Swan on St. Mary's lake, 285. 
Swashing outside, 48. 
Swear not by the moon, 86. 
Swear to the truth of a song, 178. 
Sweat but for promotion, 49. 
Sweat of thy face, 1. 
Sweat under a weary life, 107. 
Swell the soul to rage, 167. 
Sweet the uses of adversity, 48. 
Sweet bells jangled, 103. 
Sweet childish days, 283. 
Sweet day, so cool, so calm, 131. 
Sweet is every sound, 353. 
Sweet is pleasure after pain, 166. 
Sweet, so coldly, 329. 
Sweet spring, 131. 
Sweet swan of Avon, 128. 
Sweetest thing that ever grew, 

283. 
Sweetness, linked, long drawn 

out, 158. 
Sweetness on the desert air, 241. 
Sweets compacted lie, 131. 
Sweets, feast of nectared, 155. 
Sweets offorgetfulness, 256. 
to the sweet, 114. 

3, wilderness of, 149. 
Swift expires, a driveller, 231. 
Swift, race not to the. 10. 
Swifter than a weaver's shuttle, 4. 
Swimmer in his agony. 338. 
Swine, pearls before, 16. 
Swinish multitude, 380. 
Swoop, at one fell, 96. 
Sword, has laid him low, 306. 
Sword, glorious by my, 139. 
Sword, pen mightier than the, 350. 
Sword, take away the, 350. 
Swords into ploughshares, 14. 
Sybil, contortions of the, 3S2. 
Sydneian sho.vers, 133. 
Syllable men's names, 153. 
Syll.ihle of recorded time, 98. 
Syllables govern the world, 374. 
Sylvia in the night, 31. 
Syrups drowsy, 120. 

Table of my memory, 104. 
Table in a roar, 114. 
Tables my tables, 104. 
Tail of rhyme, 362. 
Take any shape but that, 94. 



Take boatman thrice thy fee. 364- 
Take each man's censure, 102. 
Take her up tenderly, 346. 
Take him for all in all, 101. 
Take mine ease in my inn, 64. 
Take no note of time, 217. 
Take, O take those lips away, 35 
Take physic, Pomp, 82. 
Take ye each a shell, 210. 
Tale, an honest, speeds best, 72. 
Tale, as 'twas said to me, 308. 
Tale, every shepherd tells his, 158. 
Tale, makes up life's, 300. 
Tale of Troy divine, 157. 
Tale, round, unvarnished, 116. 
Tale, schoolboy's, 324. 
Tale so sad, so tender, 236. 
Tale, tedious as a twice-told, 59. 
Tale that is told, 6. 
Tale, the moon takes up the won- 
drous, 181. 
Tale, thereby hangs a, 49, 53. 
Tale, 'tis an old, 310. 
Tale, to adorn a, 231. 
Tale told by an idiot, 98. 
Tale, unfold a, 103. 
Tale which holdeth children, 368- 
Talk, I never spent an hour's, 41 . 
Talk, ye gods, how he will, 175. 
Tall oaks from little acorns, 282. 
Tarn was glorious, 274. 
Tame villatic fowl, 153. 
Taper to the sun, 278. 
Tapers swim before my sight, 207. 
Task is smoothly done, 155. 
Taskmaster's eye, 159. 
Taste of your quality, 106. 
Tattered clothes, 83. 
Tatters, tear a passion to, 109. 
Taught us how to die, 211. 
Teach me to feel, 208. 
Teach the young idea, 227. 
Tear a passion to tatters, 109. 
Tear, betwixt a smile and, 327. 
Tear, every woe can claim, 330. 
Tear for pity, 67. 
Tear forgot as soon as shed. 238 
Tear, he gave to misery a, 243. 
Tear her tattered ensign, 361. 
Tear in her eye, 311. 
Tear, law which moulds a, 349. 
Tear, man without a, 307. 
Tear, some melodious, 156. 
Tears, baptized in, 268. 
Tears, beguile her of, 116. 
Tears, down Pluto's cheek, 157 
Tears, flattered to, 343. 
Tears from despair, 352. 



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INDEX. 



Tears hinder needle, 347. 

Tears, idle tears, 352. 

Tears in piteous chase, 48. 

Tears of dotage, 231. 

Tears, pensive beauty in, 305. 

Tears, prepare to shed, 79. 

Tears, sacred source of, 239. 

Tears such as angels weep, 143. 

Tears that speak. 239. 

Tears, too deep for, 292. 

Teeth are set on edge, 13. 

Teeth, skin of my, 4. 

Tell it not in Gath, 3. 

Tell me my soul, 208. 

Tell-tale women, 72. 

Tell truth and shame the Devil, 

G4. 
Temper justice with mercy, 151. 
Temper whose unclouded ray, 194. 
Temple built to God, 177. 
Temple, nothing ill can dwell in 

such a, 29. 
Temples, groves were God's first, 

356. 
Temples, solemn, 30. 
Ten low words, 197. 
Tender-handed. 226. 
Tenderly, take her up, 346. 
Tenement of clay, 16i. 
Tenets with books, 193. 
Tenor of their way, 242. 
Tented field, 116. 
Terms, good set, 49. 
Thames, no allaying, 135. 
Thanks of millions, 358. 
Theban, learned, 83. 
Thespis, the first professor of 

our art, 172. 
Thetis, lap of, 10.3. 
They conquer love that run away, 

129. 
They laugh that win, 121. 
Thick and thin, 409. 
Thick coming fancies, 97. 
Thief doth fear each bush, 71. 
Thief in the night, come as a, 25. 
Thief of time, 217. 
Thievery, example you with, 88. 
Thing, acting of a dreadful, 77. 
Thing devised by the enemy, 73. 
Thing enskyed. 33. 
Thing in awe of such. 76. 
Thing, never says a foolish, 174. 
Thing, sweetest, ever grew, 283. - 
Thing we like, we figure, 354. 
Things, contests from trivial. 199. 
Things done at the Mermaid, 129. 
Things, God's sons are, 233. 



Things left undone, 26. 
Thiugs that ne'er were, 196. 
Things unattempted, 140. 
Things, unutterable, 228. 
Things without remedy, 93. 
Think nought a trifle, 223. 
Think of that, Master Brook, 32. 
Think that day lost, 406. 
Think, those that, must govern. 

247. 
Think too little, talk too much, 

168. 
Thinks most, lives most, 354. 
Thin-spun life, 156. 
Thirsty earth, 138. 
Thirty days hath November, 403. 
Thorn, withering on the virgin, 

Thorns that in her bosom lodge. 
104. 

Thou art the man, 3. 

Thou little valiant, 58. 

Thought, almost say her body ,126. 

Thought, armor is his honest, 126. 

Thought, deeper than speech, 364. 

Thought, like a passing, 277. 

Thought, likeapleasant, 286. 

Thought, not one immoral, 234. 

Thought, pale cast of, 108. 

Thought, the dome of, 324. 

Thought, the power of, 332. 

Thought, to have common, 194. 

Thought, whistled for want of, 
169. • 

Thought, wish father to that, 68. 

Thoughts, dark soul and foul, 154. 

Thoughts, great, 345. 

Thoughts, hospitable, 150. 

Thoughts of men are widened, 351. 

Thoughts shut up want air, 218. 

Thoughts that breathe, 239. 

Thoughts that wander thro' eter- 
nity, 145. 

Thoughts too deep for tears, 292. 

Thoughts transcend our wonted 
themes, 160. 

Thousand, one shall become a, IS. 

Thread, feels at each. 187. 

Thread of his verbosity, 42. 

Threats, no terror in. 80. 

Three poet- in three ages, 172. 
Three removes bad as a fire, 377 
Three years' child. 296. 
Thrice he assayed. 143. 
Thrice he slew the slain, 166. 
Thrice is he armed. 70. 
Thrift may follow fawning, 109. 
Thrift, thrift, Uoratio, 101 



471 



Throne, my bosom's lord sits 

lightly iu his. 87. 
Throne, no brother near the, £01. 
Thrones, dominations, 150. 
Throng, the lowest of your,. 149. 
Throw physic to the dogs, 97. 
Thumbs, pricking of my, 95. 
Thunder, leaps the live, 326. 
Thunder, lightning, orin rain. 88. 
Thwack, with many a stiff, lb'2. 
Thyme, the wild, grows, 40. 
Tickle your catastrophe, 60. 
Tickled with a straw, 190. 
Tide in the affairs of men, 80. 
Tidings, when he frowned, 249. 
Tie, the silken, 309. 
Tiger, in war imitate the, 68. 
Tilt at all I meet, 203. 
Timber, seasoned, never gives. 131. 
Time adds increase to her truth, 

235. 
Time and the hour, runs, 89. 
Time, break the legs of. 362. 
Time, count by heart-throbs, 354. 
Time elaborately thrown away, 

223. 
Time, footprints on the sands of, 

360. 
Time, foremost files of, 352. 
Time hallowed and gracious, 99. 
Time has laid his hand gently, 361. 
Time has not cropt the roses, 235. 
Time, his, is forever, 138. 
Time, how small a part of, 139. 
Time is out of joint, 105. 
Time is still a-hying, 134. 
Time, noiseless foot of, 55, 307. 
Time nor place adhere, 91. 
Time, not of an age, but for all, 

128. 
Time, now is the accepted, 23. 
Time, rich with the spoils of, 241. 
Time robs us of our joys, 254. 
Time, scorns of, 107. 
Time shall throw a dart, 1 28. 
Time, syllable of recorded, 98. 
Time to every purpose, 10. 
Time to mourn, lacks. 354. 
Time toiled after him in vain, 232. 
Time, tooth of, 223. 
Time, we take no note of, 217. 
Time, what will it not subdue, 237. 
Time, whirligig of, 57. 
Time, with thee conversing, I 

' forget all, 149. 
Time writes no wrinkle, 328. 
Time's noblest offspring, 215. 
Times of need, 169. 



Times that try men's souls, 384. 

Tinkling cymbal, 22. 

Tints to-morrow, 331. 

Tipsy dance and jollity, 153. 

Tired he sleeps, 190. 

"lis greatly wise, 218. 

Title long and dark, 168. 

To be or not to be, 107. 

To be weak is miserable, 141. 

To-day, be wise, 217. 

To each his sufferings, 238. 

To err is human, 198. 

To every one that hath, 18. 

To forgive divine, 198. 

To point a moral, 231 . 

Toad, ugly and venomous, 48. 

Tobacco, sublime, 335. 

Tocsin of the soul, 340. 

Toe of the peasant, 114. 

Toe, on the light fantastic, 157. 

Toil and trouble, 95. 

Toil and trouble, why all this, 290 

Toil, envy, want the jail, 231. 

Toil, must govern those who, 247. 

Toil, verse sweetens, 177. 

Tolerable, not to be endured, 37. 

Toll for the brave, 264. 

Tomb of all the Capulets, 3S2. 

Tomb, no inscription on my, 3S6. 

Tomb of nim who would have 

made glad the world, 355. 
Tomb, sorrows encompass the, 

322. 
Tombs, hark, from the, 225 
To-morrow, already walks, 302. 
To-morrow and to-morrow, 98. 
To-morrow, boast not thyself of. 9. 
To-morrow cheerful as to-day. 194. 
To-morrow, do thy worst. 172. 
To-morrow, the darkest day, live 



till. 



15' ;. 



To-morrow to fresh 
To-morrows, confident, 294. 
Tongue, braggart with my. 96. 
Tongue dropped manna, 144. 
Tongue, give thy thoughts no 

101. 
Tongue in every wound, 79. 
Tongue, let the candid, 109. 
Tongue, music's golden, 343. 
Tongue Shakspeare spake, 285. 
Tongue, win a woman with, 31. 
Tongues, evil, 150. 
Tongues, envious, 74. 
Tongues in trees, 48. 
Tongues, slanderous, 39. 
Tongues, whispering. 299. 
Too early seen unknown, 85. 



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Too late I stayed, 307. 
Too poor for a bribe, 243 
Tooth for tooth, 2. 
Tooth of time, 36. 223. 
Tooth, sharper than a 

81. 
Toothache, philosopher that could 

endure the, 39. 
Top of my bent, 111. 
Torrent, and whirlwind's roar ,246. 
Torrent of a woman's will, 226. 
Torrent of his fate, 231. 
Torrent's smoothness, 307. 
Torrents, motionless, 300. 
Touch harmonious, 233. 
Touch not, taste not, 23. 
Touched nothing, that he did not 

adorn, 233. 
Tower of strength, 73. 
Towered cities please us, 158. 
Towering passion, 115. 
Towers, the cloud-capt, 30. 
Toys of age, 190. 
Toys, we spent them not in, 137. 
Trade's proud empire, 232. 
Train, a melancholy, 247. 
Train up a child, 8. 
Traitors, our doubts are, 33. 
Traitors, our fears make us, 96. 
Transmitter of a foolish face, 177. 
Trappings and suits of woe, 100. 
Traps, Cupid kills with, 37. 
Trav, Blanch, and Sweetheart, S3. 
Traveller from New Zealand, 389. 
Tread a measure, 43. 
Treasure is, heart be where your, 

15. 
Treasures, the good man's, 301. 
Treasures up a wrong, 333. 
Tree falleth, where the, 10. 
Tree is known by his fruit, 16. 
Tree, like a green bay, 6. 
Tree of deepest root i's found, 266. 
Tree's inclined, as the twig is 

bent, 193. 
Trees, tongues in, 48. 
Trencherman, valiant, 36. 
Tresses like the morn, loo. 
Tribe richer than all his, 122. 
Tribe, the badge of our, 45. 
Tribute, not one cent for. 385. 
Tribute of a sigh, 242. 
Tribute of a smile, 308. 
Trick worth two of that, 62. 
Tricks, fantastic, 34. 
Tricks in simple faith, 79. 
Tried, she is to blame who has 

been, 130, 213. 



Trifle, think nought a, 223. 
Trifles light as air, 120. 
Trifles, unconsidered, 54. 
Trim gardens, 156. 
Triton blow his wreathed horn, 

289. 
Triton of the minnows, 76. 
Triumphal arch, 306. 
Triumphant death, 152. 
Trodden the wine-press, 13. 
Troop, farewell the plumed, 120. 
Troops of friends, 97. 
Trope, out there flew a, 161. 
Tropics, under the, 138. 
Trouble, war, he sung, is toil and, 

166. 
Troubles, arms against a sea of, 

107. 
Troubles of the brain, 97. 
Trowel, laid on with a, 47. 
Troy, fired another, 167. 
Troy, half his, was burned, 66. 
True as steel, 86. 
True as the dial, 165. 
True, dare to be, 132. 
True ease in writing, 197. 
True hope is swift, 73. 
True love 's the gift, 309. 
True, so sad, so tender, and so, 

True to thine own self, 102. 
True wit is nature, 197. 
Trust in all things high, 353. 
Trust, unfaltering, 356. 
Truth and daylight meet, 373. 
Truth aud pure delight, 291. 
Truth and shame the devil, 64. 
Truth, bright countenance of, 

372. 
Truth crushed to earth, 357. 
Truth denies all eloquence to 

woe, 332. 
Truth, doubt, to be a liar, 105. 
Truth from his lips prevailed, 

249. 
Truth from pole to pole, 181. 
Truth has such a face, 189. 
Truth impossible to be soiled, 

373. 
Truth in every shepherd's tongue. 

124. 
Truth is beauty, 343. 
Truth is great and mighty, 14. 
Truth, lies like. 98. 
Truth, miscalled simplicity, 122 
Truth of a song, swear to the. 

Truth, on the scaffold. 303. 



473 



Truth severe, by fairv fiction 

drest, 240. 
Truth, sole judge of, 1S9. 
Truth stranger than fiction. 340. 
Truth, time will teach, 360. 
Truth, vantage-ground of, 369. 
Truth, whispering tongues can 

poison. 299. 
Tug of war. 175. 
Turf, green be the, 358. 
Turf of fresh earth, 375. 
Turf, Peter, 53. 
Turf that wraps their clav, 244 
Turrets of the land, 361. 
Turtle, love of the, 331. 
Turtle, voice of the. is heard, 11. 
'T was a fat oyster, 210. 
'T was when the seas was roarinz. 

212. 
Tweedledum and tweedledee, 214. 
Twice-told tale. 59. 
Twig is bent, 193. 
Twilight, disastrous, 142. 
Twilight gray, in sober liverv, 

143. 
Twinkling of an eye. 22. 
Two blades of grass, 184. 
Two ears of corn. 184. 
Two eternities, 315. 
Two single gentlemen in one. 219. 
Two truths are told, 89. 
Twofold image. 294. 
Type of the wise, 288. 

Una with her lamb, 291. 
Unadorned, adorned the most, 

228.' 
Unanimity is wonderful, 272. 
Unassuming commonplace, 286. 
Uncertain, coy, 311. 
Uncertain glory of an April day, 

3U. 
Uncle, my prophetic soul! 103. 
Unconquerable will. 140. 
Unction, flattering, 112. 
Under the hawthorn. 158 
Under the tropic is our language j 

spoke, 138. 
Under which king. 68. 
Underlings we are. 77. 
Underneath this stone doth lie, 

127. 
Underneath, this sable hearse, 

128. 
Undevout astronomer. 222. 
Undiscovered country. 108. 
Understanding, but no tongue, 

101. 



Undivulged crimes, 82. 
Uneasy lies the head, 67. 
Inexpressive she, 51. 
Unfeathered two-legged thing, 

167. 
Unfit, for all things, 250. 
Unforgiving eye. 272. 
Unfortunate lliss Bailev. 279. 
Unfortunate, one more^ 346. 
Unhabitable downs, 184 
Unuouseled, disappointed, 104. 
Union, once glorious, 386. 
United we stand. 280. 
United, yet divided. 257. 
Unity, to dwell together in, 6. 
Universe, born for the, 250. 
Unknelled, uncoffined, 328. 
Unknown, argues yourselves, 149. 
Unknown, live unseen, 208. 
Unknown, too early seen. S5. 
Unlamented let me die. 208. 
Unlettered, small-knowing soul, 

41. ' 
Unlineal hand. 93. 
Unpaid-for silk, 81. 
Unpleasing sharps, 87. 
Unreal mockery. 94. 
Unrespited, unpitied, 145. 
Unripened beauties, 179. 
Unseen, born to blush, 241. 
Unskilful laugh, 109. 
Unsought be won, 151. 
Unstable as water, 2. 
Untaught knaves. 61. 
Unutterable things. 228. 
Unvarnished tide. 116. 
Unwept, unhonored. unsung. 309. 
Uuwhipped of justice, 82. 
Up and quit your books, 290. 
Upon this hint, 117. 
Urania, govern my song, 150. 
Urn of poverty, 345. 
Urns, sepulchral, 263. 
Urs, those dreadful. 362. 
Use doth breed a habit. 31. 
Uses, to what base. 1 14. 
Utica. no pent-up. 323. 
Utterance of the early gods, 343. 

Vain pomp and glory, 74. 

Vain was the sage"s pride, 204. 

Vain wisdom all, 146. 

Vale, meanest floweret of the, 243. 

Vale of life, 242. 

Vale of years. 119. 

Valiant taste death but once, 78. 

Valiant, thou little. 58. 

Valley so sweet, 317. 



474 



INDEX. 



Vallombrosa, the brooks in, 141. 
Valor is oozing out, 271. 
Valor, the better part of, 65. 
Vanity and vexation of spirit, 10. 
Vanity of vanities. 11. 
Vantage, coigue of, 90. 
Vantage ground of truth, 369. 
Variety, her iufiuite, 80. 
Variety \s the spire of life, 259. 
Vase, you may shatter the, 318. 
Vault, fretted, 241. 
Vault, the deep, damp, 219. 
Vaulting ambition, 91. 
Vein, I am not in the, 72. 
Venice, her hundred isles, 327. 
Venice, I stood in, 327. 
Verbosity, thread of his, 42. 
Verge enough, 240. 
Verge of heaven, 219. 
Verge of the churchyard, 348. 
Vermeil tinctured lip, 155. 
Vernal bloom, 147. 
Vernal seasons of the year, 373. 
Verse, curst be the, 202. 
Verse, married to immortal, 158. 
Verse may find him, 132. 
Verse sweetens toil, 177. 
Verses, rhyme the rudder is, 162. 
Very like a whale, 111. 
Vestal's lot, happy is the, 207. 
Veteran, superfluous lags the, 

231. 
Vice is a monster, 189. 
Vice itself lost half its evil, 381. 
Vice prevails, ISO. 
Vices, our pleasant, 83. 
Vices, small, S3. 
Victims, the little, play, 238. 
Victors, to the, belong the spoils, 

389. 
Victory, 't was a famous, 297. 
Victories, peace hath her, 159. 
Victorious o"er all the ills of life, 

274. 
Vienna, looker-on here in, 36. 
View, landscape tire the, 229. 
Vile man that mourns, 188. 
Village bells, 261. 
Village Hampden. 242. 
Villain and he miles asunder, 87. 
Villain, one murder made a, 255. 
Villain, smile and be a, 104. 
Villain with gyves on. 64. 
Villanous saltpetre, 61. 
Vine and fig-tree, 14. 
Vines, tbxt* that spoil the, 11. 
Violet by a mossy stone. 284. 
Violet, nodding grows, 40. 



Violet, throw a perfume on the. 

59. 
Violets blue, 43. 
Violets, upon a bank of, 55. 
Violets, plucked ne'er grow again, 

254. 
Virgins soft as the roses, 331. 
Virtue alone is happiness, 192. 
Virtue, assume a, 112. 
Virtue, ceases to be a, 382. 
Virtue could what virtue would, 

154. 
Virtue, homage vice pays to, 376 
Virtue is bold, 35. 
Virtue is her own reward, 178. 
Virtue, linked with one, 332. 
Virtue makes our bliss, 192, 244. 
Virtue of necessity, 409. 
Virtue outbuilds the pyramids, 

221. 
Virtues, be kind to her, 177. 
Virtues plead like angels, 91. 
Virtues, waste thyself upon, 33. 
Virtues we write in water, 75. 
Virtuous and vicious, 189. 
Virtuous, because thou art, 56. 
Virtuous Marcia, 179. 
Visage, on his bold, 312. 
Viable, darkness, 140. 
Vision, and faculty divine, 292. 
Vision, baseless fabric of this, 30. 
Vision beatific, 143. 
Vision, the young men's, 168. 
Visionj write the, and make it 

plain, 14. 
Visions of glory, 240. 
Visitations daze the world, 354. 
Visits, angel's, 176. 
Visits, like angel's, 305. 
Vi.-its. like those of angels, 216. 
Vital spark, 208. 
Vocation, 't is my, 61. 
Voice, cry sleep no more, 92. 
Voice, gentle and low in woman, 

83. 
Voice. I hear a, you cannot. 211. 
Voiee in my dreaming ear, 305. 
Voice like a prophet's, 358. 
Voice lost in singing anthems, 66. 
Voice of charmers, 6. 
Voice of nature cries from the 

tomb, 242. 
Voice of the sluggard, 225. 
A r oice of the turtle, 11. 
Voice, still, small, 3. 
Voices, r rth with thousand. 300. 
Void, have left an aching 265. 
Volume of my brain, 104. 



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475 



Volume, within that awful, 314. 
Vote that shakes the turrets of 

the land, 361. 
Voyage of their life. SO. 
Vulgar boil an egg, 201 
Vulture, rage of the, 331. 

Waft a feather. 217. 

Wager, opiuions backed by a. 333. 

Wagers, for arguments use, 163. 

Wags the world. 49. 

Waist, bauds round the slight, 

336. 
Wait, fchey also serve who stand 

and, 159. 
Waked to ecstasy, 241. 
Wakens the slumbering ages, 354. 
Walk by faith, 23. 
Walk of virtuous life, 219. 
Walk while ye have the light. 20. 
Walking in an air of glory, 160. 
Walking shadow, 98. 
Walks, echoing, between, 151. 
Walks the waters, 332. 
Wall, weakest goes to the, 84. 
Waller was smooth, 204. 
Wandering mazes lost, 146. 
Want, lonely, retired to die, 233. 
Want of decency, 174. 
Wanting, art found, 14. 
Wanton wiles. 157. 
War, blast of, 68. 
War, circumstance of glorious, 

120. 
War, first in, 385. 
War, grim visaged. 71. 
War is a game, 261. 
War is toil and trouble, 166. 
War its thousands slays, 255. 
War, let slip the dogs of. 78. 
War, my sentence is for open, 

144. 
War. my voice is still for, 179. 
War. rumor of, 257. 
War, then was the tug of, 175. 
War to the knife. 324. 
Warble his native wood-notes, 

158. 
Ward, mv old, 62. 
Warrior famoused for fight, 122. 
Warrior taking his vest. 344 
War's glorious art, 223. 
War's rattle, 310. ' 
Washington's awful memory, 297- 
Waste its sweetness, 241. 
Watch au idler is a, 262. 
Watch and pray, 18. 
Watch in every old man's eye, 86. 



Watchdog's honest bark, 337. 
Watchdog's voice. 248. 
Watches, as our judgments, 196 
Watcher of the skies. 344. 
Water, conscious, 135. 
Water, drink no longer, 24. 
W°.ter everywhere, 298. 
Water imperceptible. 348. 
Water, not a drop to drink, 298. 
Water-rats, 44. 
Water, smooth runs the, 70. 
Water spilt on the ground, 3. 
Water, unstable as, 2. 
Waters, beside the still, 5. 
Waters, east thy bread upon the. 

10. 
Waters of the rude sea, 60. 
Waters, she walks the, 332. 
Waters, the hell of, 327. 
Wave o' the sea, 54. 
Waves be stayed. 5. 

Way, a dim and perilous, 293. 

Way, noiseless tenor of their, 242 

Way of all the earth, 2. 

Way of life, 96. 

Way to dusty death, 98. 

Ways, amend your, 13. 

Ways of God, justify the, 186. 

Ways of pleasantness, 7. 

Ways, vindicate the, 186. 

"Ways, untrodden, 284. 

We first endure, 1S9. 

We know what we are, 113. 

We spent them not in toys, 137. 

"We watched her breathing. 346. 

Weakest goes to the wall, 84. 

Weak woman went astray, 178. 

Wealth of Ormuz. 144. 

Weariness can snore upon the 
flint. 81. 

Wearisome condition of human- 
ity. 125. 

Weary be at rest, 4. 

Weary of conjectures, ISO. 

Web of our life, 55 

Web, stained, 815. 

Web, what a taugled, 311. 

Wee short hour, 277. 

Weed on Lethe wharf, 103. 

Weeds of glorious feature, 28. 

Weep no more, lady, 254. 

Weep, while all around thee, 269 

Weep, who would not, 202. 

Weighed in the balances, 14. 

Weight of mightiest monarchies 
145. 

Welcome, deep-mouthed, 337. 



476 



INDEX. 



Welcome the coming guest. 203. 
Well, not so deep as a, 87. 
Well, not wisely, but too, 122. 
Well of English undefvled, 27. 
Well-bred whisper, 259. 
Wells, dropping buckets into 

empty, 259. 
Wept o"er his wounds, 248. 
Westward, the course of empire, 

215. 
Wet damnation. 364. 
Whale, and bobbed for, 173. 
AVhale, very like a. Ill 
What a falling oil was there, 103. 
What a fall to there, 79. 
What a piece of work is man. 106. 
What beckoning-:, 
What boots it at one gate. 153. 
What can ennoble sots. 191. 
What care I how fair she be. 130. 
What constitutes a state. 269. 
What God hath joined, 17. 
What, he knew what's, 161. 
What is a man profited. 17. 
What is done is done. 93. 
What is friendship. 251. 
What makes doctrines plain, 165. 
What man dare, I dare. 91. 
What ne'er was nor is, 196. 
What perils do environ. 162. 
What shall I do to be forever 

known, 137. 
What thou wnuldst highly, 90. 
What though the field be lost. 140. 
What will Sirs. Grundy say. 281. 
What's done we may compute, 

275. 
What "s Hecuba to him. 106. 
What 's impossible, can't be, 279. 
What 's in a name. 85. 
Whatever is, is right, 188. 
Wheat, two grains of. 44. 
Wheel broken at the cistern, 11. 
Wheel, butterfly upon a, 202 
Wheel witliio a, 13. 
Wheels of weary life. 171. 
When lovely woman, 252. 
When shall we three meet. 88. 
Whence and what art thou, 147. 
Where the bee sucks. 30. 
Where the tree falleth. 10. 
Where the wood-pigeons breed, 

233. 
Whereabout, prate of my, 92. 
Wherefore, for every why, 161. 
Whining schoolboy. 50. 
Whip, in every honest hand, 121. 
Whip me such knaves, 115. 



Whipped the offending Adam, 68. 
Whip, and scorns of time, 107. 
Whirligig of time. 57 
Whirlwind, rides in the, 180. 
Whirlwind, shall reap the. 14. 
Whisper circling round. 249. 
Whispering. I ne'er consent, 337 
Whispering lovers made. 247. 
Whispering tongues. 2'J'->. 
Whispering with white lips, 326. 
Whispers of fancv, 232. 
Whistle, clear as a'. 214. 
Whistle, dear for his. 377. 
Whistle her off, 119. 
Whistle bis friends back. 251. 
Whistling of a name. 192. 
Whistled for want of thought, 169. 
White, wench's black eye, 86. 
Whited sepulchres, 18. 
Whiter than the driven snow, 236. 
Whither thou goest I will go, 2. 
Who builds a church to God, 195. 
Who but must Laugh. 202. 
Who does the best. 21S. 
Who dotes yet doubts. 119. 
Who drives fat oxen. 234. 
Who ne'er knew joy, 209. 
Who never mentions hell, 195. 
Who overcomes by force, 143. 
Who pens a stanza, 201. 
Who says in verse. 203. 
Who shall decide. 195. 
Who steals my purse. 119. 
Who sweeps a room. 131. 
Who would not weep. 202. 
Whole of life to Uve. 3 >3. 
Whom the gods love. 339. 
Whose dog are you, 210. 
Why did vou kick me down stairs, 

183. 
Why. for every, a wherefore. 161. 
Why is plain as way to parish 

church, 50. 
Why, man of morals, why. 138. 
Why should every creature drink 

but I, 13S. 
Why so pale and wan, 133. 
Wicked cease from troubling. 4. 
Wicked flee when no man pursu- 

eth, 9. 
Wiekliffe's ashes. 295. 
Wide as a church door. 87. 
Wife and children impediments tc 

great enterprises. 309. 
Wife of thy bosom, 2. 
Wife, true and honorable. 77. 
Wild in woods, 170. 
Wilderness of sweets, 149. 



477 



Wiles, simple, 286. 
Will, complies against his, 165. 
Will, current of a woman's, 226. 
Will, if she will, 226. 
Will, puzzles the, 108. 
Will, there "s a way, 273. 
Will unconquerable. 140. 
Willing to wound, 202. 
Willingly let it die, 372. 
Willows, our harps on the, 7. 
Win, they laugh that, 121. 
Wind, and his nobility, 61. 
Wind, as large a charter as the, 50. 
Wind, blow, and crack your 

cheeks, 82. 
Wind, blow, come wrack, 98. 
Wind, blow, thou winter, 51. 
Wind bloweth as it listeth, 19. 
Wind, fly on the wings of the, 5. 
Wind. God tempers the, 380. 
Wind, hope constancy in, 334. 
Wind, idle as the, 80. 
Wind, ill, turns none to good, 408. 
Wind, let her down the, 119. 
Wind, sits the. in that corner, 37. 
Wind, sorrow's keenest, 289. 
Wind, tuev have sown the, 14 
Winding bout, 158. 
Windows richly dight, 157. 
Windows that exclude the light, 

243. 
Winds of heaven. 100. 
Winds viewless, 35. 
Wine, a good, familiar creature, 

118. 
Wine, for the stomach's sake, 24. 
Wine, good, needs no bush, 53. 
Wine, look not upon the, 8. 
Wine, O thou invisible spirit of, 

118. 
Wine of life, 93. 
Wing, from an angel's, 290. 
Winirs. arise with healing in his, 

14. 
Wiii-rs. Hies with swallow's, 73. 
Wings, like a dove, 6. 
Wings of the wind. 5. 
Wings, riches make themselves, 8. 
Winter comes to rule the year, 

228. 
Winter, lingering, chills the lap 

of May, 246. 
Winter, my age is as a lusty, 49. 
Winter of our discontent, 71. 
Winter, ruler of the inverted year, 

260 
Wipe away all records. 104. 
Wisdom and false philosophy, 146. 



Wisdom and wit, 215. 
Wisdom finds a wav, 273. 
Wisdom is humble, 262. 
Wisdom married to immortal 

verse, 294. 
Wisdom mounts her zenith 268. 
Wisdom priced aoove rubies 5. 
Wisdom with mirth, 250. 
Wise above that which is written, 

21. 
Wise as serpents, 16. 
Wise, be not worldly, 131. 
Wise, folly to be, 239. 
Wise in your own conceits, 21. 
Wise, never live long, 72. 
Wise saws and modern instances, 

50. 
Wisely, loved not, 122. 
Wiser and better grow, 176. 
Wisest, brightest, meanest of 

mankind, 191. 
Wisest man who is not wise, 283. 
Wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, 

151. 
Wish, father to the thought, 68. 
Wish, not what we, 273. 
Wishes lengthen as our sun de- 
clines, 220. 
Wishes, like shadows 220. 
Wishing, worst of employments, 

220. 
Wit, a miracle instead of, 223. 
Wit among lords, 263. 
Wit, a man in, 209. 
Wit, brevity is the soul of, 105. 
Wit, eloquence, and poetry, 137. 
Wit, gentle as bright, 321. 
Wit, his whole, in a jest, 129. 
Wit in other men, 66. 
Wit in the very first line, 251. 
Wit invites you, 263. 
Wit, is nature to advantage 

dressed, 197. 
Wit, no room for, 374. 
Wit, plentiful lack of, 105 
Wit, shy of using it, 161. 
Wit, skirmish of, 36. 
Wit, that can creep, 202. 
Wit. too proud for a. 250 
Wit with dunces. 205. 
Wit 's a feather, 191. 
Witch hath power to charm, 99. 
Witch the world, 64. 
With too much quickness, 194. 
With too much thinking, 194. 
Withering on the virgin thorn, 39 
Withers are unwrung, 110. 
Witnesses, a cloud of, 24. 



478 



Wits' end, at their, 6. 

Wits, keen encounter- of our, 72. 

Wits, to madness near allied, 167. 

Witty, only in myself. 66. 

Woe. a man of, 308. 

Woe a tear can claim, 330. 

Woe doth tread upon another's 

heel, 219. 
Woe. gave signs of. 151. 
Woe, heritage of, 336. 
Woe is life protracted, 231. 
Woe luxury of. 321. 
Woe. mockery of, 209. 
Woe, some degree of, 235. 
Woe succeeds a woe, 219. 
Woe, teach me to feel another's, 

20S. 
Woe, the tears of, 321. 
Woe. trappings and the suits of, 

' 100. 
Woe, truth denies all eloquence 

to, 332. 
Woe, turns at the touch of, 267. 
Woes, rare are solitarv, 219. 
Woes, Galileo with his, 327. 
Wolf dwell with the lamb, 12. 
Woman, a contentious, '.). 
Woman a contradiction, 194. 
Woman, an excellent thing in. 83. 
Woman, and may be WO 
Woman, dark eye ii 
Woman, frailty, thy n< i 
Woman, how divine a t:n _ 
Woman, in her first pae 
Woman, in our hours of ease, 

811. 
Woman, in this humor wooed, 72. 
Woman is at he.irt a rake, 104. 
Woman, lovely. 174. 
Woman loves her lover, 333. 
Woman moved. 53. 
Woman, nature made thee to 

temper man. 174. 
Woman, nol.lv phvnne I, . 
Woman, O, I could play the, 96. 
Woman, or an epitaph, 335. 
Woman perfected, 363. 
Woman scorned, no furv like a, 

185. 
Woman, she is a, 70. 
Woman stoops to folly, 2-51. 
Woman, take an elder. 56. 
Woman that deliberates is lost, 

180. 
Woman, to he won, 70. 
Woman will or won't, 226. 
Woman 's at best a contradiction 

194. 



s reason, none but a, 30 
Woman's will, stem the torrent 

of a, 226. 
Woman's will, to turn the cur- 
rent of a. 226. 
Womanhood and childhood fleet, 

360. 
Womankind, faith in, 353. 
Womb of morning dew, 27. 
Womb of pia mater, 42. 
Womb of uncreated night, 145. 
Women pardoned all except her 

face, 340. 
Women, passing the love of, 3. 
Women, these telltale, 72. 
Women's weapons, 81. 
Women wish to be who love their 

lords. 245. 
Won, how fields were, 248. 
Wonder grew, that one small 

head, 249. 
Wonder how the devil they got 

there, 201. 
Wonder of an hour, 324. 
Wonder of our stage, 128. 
Wonder, without our special, 95. 
Wonderful, most wonderful, 51. 
Woodcocks, springes to catch. 102. 
Wood, impulse from a vernal, 290. 
tea, native. 158. 
_■ '.us breed, 230. 
Wood, the deep and gloomy, 287. 
Wood- and pastures new. 150. 
Woods, in the pathless, 328. 
Woods, senators of mighty, 343. 
Woods, stoic of the, 307. ' 
Wooed, that would be, 151. 
Wool, all cry and no, 102. 
Word at random, 314. 
Word fitly spoken. 9. 
Word, for teaching me that. 46. 
Word, no man relies on. 174. 
Word of Caesar against the world, 

79. 
Word of promise, 98. 
Word, suit the action to the, 109. 
Word to throw at a dog, 48. 
Words are like leave.-. ]'■',. 
Words are men's daughters, 233. 
Words are wise men's counters, 

367. 
Words are women. 233. 
Words as fashions, 197. 
Words, cannot paint. 209. 
Words, familiar as household, 69. 
Words give sorrow, 96. 
Words, immodest, admit of no 
1 defence, 174. 



INDEX. 



479 



Words of learned length, 249. 
Words that Bacon spoke, 204. 
Words that burn, 239. 
Words that weep. 239 
Words, words, words, 105. 
Work, who first invented, 297- 
Works, these are th y glorious, 1^9. 
World, a fleeting show, 321. 
World, a good deed in a naughty, 

47. 
World and its dread laugh, 228. 
World as a stage, 43. 
World, brought death into, 140. 
World calls idle. 259. 
World, children of this, 19. 
World, exhausted, 232. 
World falls, when Rome falls, 328. 
World, fever of the, 287. 
World, foremost man of the, 79. 
World forgetting, by the world 

forgot, 207. 
World, full of briars, 48. 
World, gave his honors to the, 

75. 
World, how wags the, 49. 
World, I have not loved the, 326. 
World, I hold the world but as, 

43. 
World in love with night, 87. 
World is given to lying, 65. 
World its veterans rewards, 194. 
World kuows no thing, of its great- 
est men, 354. 
World, lash the rascal naked 

through the, 121. 
World, light of the, 15. 
World must be peopled, 37. 
World of happy days, 72. 
World of sighs, 116. 
World of vile, ill-favored faults, 

32. 
World, peace to be found in the, 

320. 
World, pendent, 35. 
World, respect upon the, 43. 
World, round the habitable, 171. 
World runs away, 110. 
World, so stands the statue that 

enchants the, 228. 
World, start of the majestic, 76. 
World, stood against the, 79. 
World, this bleak, 318. 
World too much with us, 289. 
World, unintelligible, 287. 
World, uses of this, 100. 
World wags, 49. 
World wanted many an idle song, 

201. 



World was all before them, 152. 
World was not worthy of, 24. 
World was sad, 304. 
World, witch the, 64. 
World with its motley rout, 266. 
World without a sun. 304. 
Worlds, allured to brighter, 249. 
World 's mine oyster, 32. 
World 's wide enough for thee 

and me, 379. 
Worlds, should conquer, 136. 
Worlds, wreck of matter and the 

crush of, 180. 
Worm dieth not. 18. 
Worm in the bud, 56. 
Worm, smallest, 71. 
Worm, who needlessly sets foot 

upon a, 262. 
Worse appear the better reason, 

144. 
Worse for wear, 264. 
Worse, greater feeling to the, 60. 
Worship God, he says, 278. 
Worst, the. speak something good, 

132. 
Worth by poverty depressed, 232. 
Worth, conscience of her, -151. 
Worth makes the man, 191. 
Worth of anything, 163. 
Worth, sad relic of departed, 325. 
Would I were dead now, 348. 
Would not live alway, 4. 
Would'st not play false, 90. 
Wound, he jests at scars that 

never felt a, 85. 
Wounded spirit, 8. 
Wrack, blow wind, come, 98. 
Wrath, nursing her, to keep it 

■warm, 274. 
Wrath, soft answer turneth away, 



Wrath, sun go down upon, 23. 
Wreathed smiles, 157. 
Wreck of matter, 180. 
Wretch, hollow-eyed, 31. 
Wretches hang that jurymen may 

dine, 200. 
Wretches, poor naked, 82. 
Wrinkled care derides, 157. 
Writ, and what is, is writ, 329 
Writ, stolen from holy, 72. 
Write about it, goddess, 205. 
Write and read comes by nature. 

37. 
Write well hereafter. 372. 
Write with a goose pen, 57. 
Write with ease, 273. 
Writer, pen of a ready, 6. 



480 



IXDEX. 



Writing, true ease in, 197. 
Wrong, always in the. 168. 
Wrong, condemn the, 406. 
Wrong on the throne, 363. 
Wrong sow by the ear, 410. 
Wrong, they ne'er pardon who 

have done the, 170. 
Wrong, treasures up a, 333. 
Wrongs unredressed, 293. 
Wroth with one we love, 299. 

Ye mariners of England, 306. 

Ye who listen with credulity, 232. 

Year, saddest day of the, 356. 

Year, starry girdle of the, 305. 

Years, dim with the mist of, 324. 

Years following years, 204. 

Years, live in deeds, not, 354. 

Years, love of life increased with, 
267. 

Years steal fire, 325. 

Years, we spend our, 6. 

Yellow to the jaundiced eye, 198. 

Yesterdays, cheerful, 294. 

Yesterdays have lighted fools, 98. 

Yoke, part of Flanders hath re- 
ceived our, 138 

Yorick ! alas poor, 114. 



York, this sun of, 71. 
You beat your pate, 209. 
Young, and now am old, 5. 
Young men's vision, 168. 
Young, when my bosom was 305. 
Yours, if her merit lessened, 235. 
Youth on the prow, 240. 
Youth, friends in, 299. 
Youth, gives to her mind what he 

steals from her, 235. 
Youth, homekeeping, 30. 
Youth, liquid dew of, 101. 
Youth of frolics, 194. 
Youth of labor, with an age of 

ease, 248. 
Youth of note, 81. 
Youth of the realm, 71. 
Youth, remember thy Creator, 

Youth, riband in the cap of, 113. 
Y'outh that fired the Ephesian 

dome, 182. 
Youth, the spirit of, 81. 
Youth to fame unknown, 242. 

Zeal of God, 21. 
Zealots, graceless, 190. 
Zigzag manuscript, 258 



ADDENDA. 



ADDENDA. 

TO THE FOURTH EDITION. 



SHAKSPEARE. 
Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear. 

Venus and Adonis. 

father, what a hell of witchcraft lies 
In the small orb of one particular tear. 

A Lover's Complaint, St. xlii. 

Like stones of worth they thinly placed are, 
Or captain jewels in the carcanet. Sonnet Hi. 

The ornament of beauty is suspect, 

A crow that flies in heaven's sweetest air. ■ 

Sonnet lxx. 

That full star that ushers in the even. 

Sonnet cxxxii. 

Grabbed age and youth 
Cannot live together. 

The Passionate Pilgrim, viii. 

Have you not heard it said full oft 
A woman's nay doth' stand for naught. 

Ibid. xiv. 



JOHN MILTON. 

A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog, 
Betwixt Daraiata and Mount Casius old, 
Where armies whole have sunk. 

Paradise Lost. Booh ii. Line 592. 

For hot, cold, moist, and dry, four champions fierce, 
Strive here for mastery. Ibid. Booh ii. Line 898. 

Such joy ambition fiuds. Ibid. Booh iv. Line 92. 

Sabean odours from the spicy shore 

Of Arabie the blest. Ibid. Booh iv. Line 162. 

And on the Tree of Life 
The middle tree and highest there that grew, 
Sat like a cormorant. Ibid. Booh iv. Line 194. 

All but the wakeful nightingale ; 
She all night long her amorous descant sung ; 
Silence was pleased : now glowed the firmament 
With living sapphires ; Hesperus that led 
The starry host rode brightest, till the moon, 
Rising in clouded majesty, at length 
Apparent queen unveiled her peerless light, 
A.nd o'er the dark her silver mantle threw. 

Ibid. Booh iv. Line 602. 
Like Teneriff or Atlas unremoved. 

Ibid. Booh iv. Line 987. 
My latest found, 
Heaven's last best gift, my ever-new delight. 

Ibid. Booh v. Line 18. 



ADDENDA. 3 

Now half appeared 
The tawny lion, pawing to get free 
His hinder parts. Ibid. Booh vii. Line 463. 

The Angel ended, and in Adam's ear 
So charming left his voice, that he awhile 
Thought him still speaking, still £tood fixed to hear. 
Ibid. Booh viii. Line 1. 

And grace that won who .saw to wish her stay. 

Ibid. Booh viii. Line 43. 

And, touched by her fair tendance, gladlier grew. 
Ibid. Booh viii. Line 47. 

To know 
That which before us lies in daily life, 
Is the prime wisdom. Ibid. Booh viii. Line 192. 

To the nuptial bower 
I led her, blushing like the morn. All heaven, 
And happy constellations on that hour 
Shed their selectest influence ; the earth 
Gave sign of gratulation, and each hill ; 
Joyous the birds ; fresh gales and gentle airs 
Whispered it to the woods, and from their wings 
Flung rose, flung odours from the spicy shrub. 

Ibid. Booh viii. Line 510. 

As one who long in populous city pent 
Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air. 

Ibid. Booh ix. Line 445. 

So glozed the tempter. Ibid. Booh ix. Line 549. 



ADDENDA. 

In her face excuse 
Came prologue, and apology too prompt. 

Ibid. Book ix. Line 853. 

How gladly would I meet 
Mortality, my sentence, and be earth 
Insensible ! how glad would lay me down 
As in my mother's lap ! Ibid. Book x. Line 775. 

Such sober certainty of waking bliss. 

Comus. Line 263. 

That in the colours of the rainbow live 
And play i' th' plighted clouds. 

Ibid. Line 300. 

The unsunned heaps 
Of miser's treasure. Ibid. Line 398. 

If this fail, 
The pillared firmament is rottenness, 
And earth's base built on stubble. Ibid. Line 597. 

It is for homely features to keep home, 

They had their name thence. Ibid. Line 748. 

The gadding vine. Lycidas. Line 40. 

And strictly meditate the thankless Muse. 

Ibid. Line 66. 

To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, 
Or with the tangles of Neasra's hair. 

Ibid. Line 68. 

Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil. 

Ibid. Line 78. 



ADDENDA. 5 

SIR JOHN HARRINGTON. 
Treason doth never prosper, — what's the reason ? 
Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason. 

Epigrams. Bh. iv. Ep. 5. 

EDMUND WALLER. 
For all we know 
Of what the blessed do above 
Is, that they sing and that they love. 

While I listen to thy voice. 



JONATHAN STYTET. 
Bread is the staff of life. Tale of a Tub. 



CHARLES CHURCHILL. 
Apt alliteration's artful aid. Prophecy of Famine. 

COLLET CIBBER. 
• Now by St. Paul the work goes bravely on. 

Richard III. Act iii. Scene 1. 
A weak invention of the enemy.* 

Ibid. Act v. Scene 3. 



CHARLES DLBDEN 
There's a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, 
To keep watch for the life of poor Jack. Poor Jack. 

* Cf. Shakespeare. Richard III. Act v. Scene 3. 



6 ADDENDA. 

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. 
An ampler ether, a diviner air. Laodamia. 

But shapes that come not at an earthly call 
Will not depart when mortal voices bid. Dion v. 
But yet I know, where'er I go, 
That there hath passed away a glory from the earth. 
Ode. Intimations of Immortality. St. 2. 
Small service is true service while it lasts : 

Of humblest Friends, bright Creature ! scorn 
not one; 
The Daisy, by the shadow that it casts, 

Protects the lingering dew-drop from the Sun. 

To a Child. Written in her Album. 
My eyes are dim with childish tears, 

My heart is idly stirred, 
For the same sound is in my ears 

Which in those days I heard. The Fountain. 

LORD BYRON. 
Had sighed to many though he loved but one. 

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto i. Stanza 5. 
Might shake the saintship of an anchorite. 

Canto i. Stanza 11. 
Still from the fount of Joy's delicious springs 
Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom 
I flings.* Canto i. Stanza 82. 

* Medio de fonte leporum 
Surgit amari aliquid quod in ipsis floribus angat. 

Lucretius, iv. 1. 1133. 



ADDENDA. 7 

Gone, glimmering through the dream of things that 

were. Canto ii. Stanza 2. 

I am as a weed, 

Flung from the rock, on Ocean's foam, to sail 

Where'er the surge may sweep, the tempest's breath 

prevail. Canto iii. Stanza 2, 

And thus the heart will break, yet brokenly live on. 
Canto iii. Stanza 32. 
Drops the light drip of the suspended oar. 

Canto iii. Stanza 86. 
Parting day 
Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues 
With a new colour as it gasps away, 
The last still loveliest, till — 'tis gone — and all is 
gray. Canto iv. Stanza 29. 

Let these describe the undescribable. 

Canto iv. Stanza 53. 
Heaven gives its favorites — early death. 

Canto iv. Stanza 102. 

Thou wert a beautiful thought, and softly bodied 

forth. Canto iv. Stanza 115. 

Alas ! our young affections run to waste, 

Or water but the desert. Canto iv. Stanza 120. 

With silent worship of the great of old ! 
The dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule 
Our spirits from their urns. Manfred. Act iii. Sc. 4. 
There's not a joy the world can give like that it 
takes away. Stanzas for Music. 



8 ADDENDA. 

Yet truth will sometimes lend her noblest fires, 
And decorate the verse herself inspires : 
This fact, in Virtue's name, let Crabbe attest : 
Though Nature's sternest painter, yet the best. 

English Bards and Scotch Reviewers. Line 839. 

In my hot youth, when George the Third was King. 
Don Juan. Canto i. Stanza 212. 



JOHN KEATS. 
As though a rose should shut, and be a bud again. 
The Eve of St. Agnes. Stanza 27. 

Thou foster-child of Silence and slow Time. 

Ode on a Grecian Urn. 



ALFRED TENNYSON. 
Her eyes are homes of silent prayer. 

In Memoriam. xxxii. 
"Whose faith has centre everywhere, 
Nor cares to fix itself to form. Ibid, xxxiii. 

Who battled for the true, the just. Ibid. lv. 

So many worlds, so much to do, 

So little done, such things to be. Ibid, lxxii. 

One God, one law, one element, 

And one far-off" divine event, 

To which the whole creation moves. 

Ibid. Conclusion. 
I built my soul a lordly pleasure-house, 
Wherein at ease for aye to dwell. The Palace of Art. 



JOHN PIERPONT. 

A weapon that comes down as still 
As snow-flakes fall upon the sod ; 

But executes a freeman's will, 

As lightning does the will of God ; 

And from its force, nor doors nor locks 

Can shield you ; — 'tis the ballot-box. 

A Word from a Petitioner. 



H. W. LONGFELLOW. 

Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they 

grind exceeding small ; 
Though with patience He stands waiting, with 
exactness grinds He all. 

Retribution. From the Sinngediclite of Fricdrich 
Von Logau. 

There is no Death ! What seems so is transition. 

This life of mortal breath 
Is but a suburb of the life elysian, 

Whose portal we call death. Resignation. 

Sail on, O Ship of State ! 
Sail on, Union, strong and great ! 
Humanity with all its fears, 
With all the hopes of future years, 
Is hanging breathless on thy fate ! 

The Building of the Ship. 



10 



JAMES MONTGOMERY. 

Gashed with honorable scars, 

Low in Glory's lap they lie ; 
Though they fell, they fell like stars, 

Streaming splendor through the sky. 

The Battle of Alexandria. 

Prayer is the soul's sincere desire, 

Uttered or unexpressed, 
The motion of a hidden fire 

That trembles in the breast. 

Orig. Hymns. What is Prayer ? 

HENRY HART MILMAN. 

And the cold marble leapt to life a god. 

The Belvidere Apollo. 

Too fair to worship, too divine to love. Ibid. 



JOHN KEBLE. 

Why should we faint and fear to live alone, 

Since all alone, so heaven has willed, we die, 
Nor even the tenderest heart, and next our own, 
Knows half the reasons why we smile and sigh. 
The Christian Year. Twenty-fourth Sunday 
after Trinity. 

'Tis sweet, as year by year we lose 

Friends out of sight, in faith to muse 

How grows in Paradise our store. Burial of the Dead- 



ADDENDA. 11 

GEORGE CANNING. 
Black's not so black ; — nor white so very white. 

The New Morality. Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin. 
I called the New World into existence to redress 
the balance of the old. 

The King's Message. (Dec. 12, 1826.) 



FRANCIS BACON. 
" Antiquitas scecidi juvenilis mandi." 
These times are the ancient times, when the 
world is ancient, and not those which we account 
ancient ordine retrogrado, by a computation back- 
ward from ourselves.* f Advancement of Learning. 



SIR PHILIP SIDNEY. 
Sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge. 

Defence of Poesy. 
High erected thought seated in a heart of cour- 
tesy. Arcadia. Book I. 

* As in the little, so in the great world, reason will tell you 
that old age or antiquity is to be accounted by the farther dis- 
tance from the beginning and the nearer approach to the end. 
. . . Yourself, then, in disgracing [disparaging] the present 
tinies, disgrace [disparage] Antiquity, properly so called ; the 
times wherein we now live being in propriety of speech the 
most ancient since the world's creation. 

Geokge Hakewill. An Apologie or Declaration of 
the Power and Providence of God in the Government 
of the World. London, 1627. 

t We are Ancients of the earth, 
And in the morning of the times. 

Tennyson. The Day Dream. (V Envoi.) 



12 



THOMAS FULLER. 

The Pyramids themselves, doting with age, have 
forgotten the names of their founders. 

Holy State. Of Tombs. 



RICHARD BENTLEY. 

It is a maxim with me that no man was ever 
written out of reputation but by himself. 

Monk's Life of Bentley, p. 90. 



EDMUND BURKE. 

Having looked to government for bread on the 
very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand 
that fed them. Thoughts and Details on Scarcity. 



SIR ROBERT WALPOLE. 

Anything but history, for history must be false. 
Walpoliana, No. 141. 

The Gratitude of place-expectants is a lively 
sense of future favors.* 



FISHER AMES. 
I consider biennial elections as a security that 
the sober, second thought of the people shall be 
law. Speech on Biennial Elections, 

* See Hazlitt. Wit and Humour. 



ADDENDA. 13 

KUFUS CHOATE. 
"We join ourselves to no party that does not 
carry the flag and keep step to the music of the 
Union. Letter to the Whig Convention. 

Its constitution the glittering and sounding gen- 
eralities of natural right which make up the Decla- 
ration of Independence. 

Letter to the Maine Whig Committee. 

O. W. HOLMES. 
Boston State-House is the hub of the Solar 
System. You couldn't pry that out of a Boston 
man if you had the tire of all creation straightened 
out for a crowbar. 

The Autocrat of the Brealcfast Table, p. 143. 



" 1 believe it because it is impossible." 

Certum est, quia impossible est. 

Tertullian, De Came Christi, c. 5. 
Sometimes quoted, credo quia impossibile est; 
and in English, " because it is incredible." 



" Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God." 
From an inscription on the cannon near which 
the ashes of President John Bradshaw were lodged, 
on the top of a high hill near Martha Bay in Ja- 
maica. 

Stiles's History of the Three Judges of King 
Charles L. 



14 ADDENDA. 

" Power behind the Throne." 
Along train of these practices has at length unwillingly con- 
vinced me that there is something behind the Throne greater 
than the King himself.* 

Chatham. Speech March 2d, 1770, on Lord Craven's Mo- 
tion for an address to his Majesty, etc. Chatham Corre- 
spondence. Vol. iii. p. 422. London, 1839. 
* Quoted, " greater than the Throne itself," by Lord ilahon 
(History of England. Vol. v. p. 258. London, 1853.) 



" Nation of Shopkeepers." 
From an oration purporting to have been delivered by Sam- 
uel Adams at the State-House in Philadelphia, August 1st, 
1776. Philadelphia, printed, London, reprinted for E. Johnson, 
No. 4 Lvdgate Hill, MDCCLXXVI *t 

* " No such American edition has ever been seen, but at 
least four copies are known of the London issue. A German 
translation of this oration was printed in 1778, perhaps at Bern; 
the place of publication is not given." — Wells's Life of Adams. 
f And what is true of a shopkeeper is true of a shopkeeping 
nation. — Tucker, Deax of Gloucester. Tract. 1766. 

" Put your trust in God, my boys, and keep your 
powder dry." Col. Blacker. 1834. Oliver's Advice. 

There is a well-authenticated anecdote of Cromwell. On a 
certain occasion, when hi- troops were about crossing a river to 
attack the enemy, he concluded an address, couched in the 
usual fanatic terms in use among them, with these words, — 
" Put your trust in God; but mind to keep your powder dry." 
Hates' Ballads of Ireland. Vol. i. p. 191. 



" Greatest happiness of the greatest number," 

Priestley was the first (unless it was Beccaria§) who taught 

my lips to pronounce this sacred truth; — That the greatest 

happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals 

and legislation. Bentham's Works. Vol. x. p. 142. 

§ The expression is used by Beccaria in the Introduction to 
his Essay on Crimes and Punishments. 



INDEX TO ADDENDA. 



Affections run to waste, 7. 

Air, diviner, 6. 

Alliteration^ artful aid, 5. 

Alone, we live and die, 10. 

Ancient times, 11. 

Ancients of the earth, 11. 

Ambition finds such joy, 2. 

Annoy the air, 3 

Antiquitas sajculi juventus mun- 

di, 11. 
Apology too prompt, 4. 
Arabie the blest, 2. 

Ballot-box, 9. 

Battled for the true, the just, 8. 

Beauty's ornament, suspect, 1. 

Believe, because impossible,'13. 

Bid me discourse, 1 

Biennial elections, 12. 

Bite the hand that fed them, 12. 

Bitter, some, o'er the flowers, 6. 

Black's not so black, 11. 

Blessed, what the, do above, 5. 

Bread the staff of life, 5. 

Carcanet, captain jewels in the, 1. 
Certum est, quia impossibile, 13. 
Cherub, sweet little, aloft, 5. 
City, pent in populous, 3. 
Cormorant, sat like a, 2 
Crabbed age and youth, 1. 
Creation moves to one event, 8. 

Daisy protects the dew-drop, 6. 

Day dies like the dolphin, 7. 

Death is transition, 9. 

Describe the undescribable, 7. 

Doting with age, 12 

Dream, the, of things that were, 7. 

Early death, Heaven gives its fa- 
vorites, 7. 
Enchant thine ear, 1. 
Ether, ampler, 6. 



Excuse came prologue, 4. 

Eyes dim with childish tears, 6. - 

Eyes, homes of silent prayer, 8. 

Faith has centre everywhere, 8. 
Fame, no plant, on mortal soil, 4. 
Firmament, glowed with sapphires, 

Firmament, the pillared, is rotten- 
ness, 4. 

Foster-child of silence, 8. 

Friends lost, a store in Para- 
dise, 10. 

Gadding vine, 4. 

Gashed with honorable scars, 10. 

Gladlier grew, 3. 

Glittering generalities, 13. 

Glory, passed away from earth, 6. 

Glory's lap they lie, 10. 

Glozed the tempter, 3. 

Gone, glimmering through the 

dream, 7. 
Grace that won who saw, 3. 
Gratitude of place-expectants, 12. 
Gratulation, gave sign of, 3. 
Greatest happiness of the greatest 

number. 14. 
Gulf profound, 2. 

Hanging breathless on thy fate, 9. 

Heart idly stirred, 6. 

Heart will break yet live, 7. 

Heaven's last best gift, 2. 

Hell of witchcraft, 1. 

History must be false, 12. 

Homely features keep home, 4. 

Honorable scars, 10. 

Hot, cold, moist, and dry, 2. 

Hot youth, 8. 

Hub of the Solar System, 13. 

Invention of the enemy, 5. 



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INDEX TO ADDENDA. 



Jewels in the careanet, 1. 

Joy, the world takes away, 7 
Joy's delicious springs, 6. 

Keep your powder dry, 14. 

Last still loveliest, 7. 

Life a suburb, 9. 

Lion, tawny, pawing, 3. 

Marble, cold, leapt to life, 10. 
Medio de fonte leporum, 6. 
Mills of God grind slowly, 9. 
Moon, apparent queen, 2. 
Mortality, my sentence, 4. 
Mother's lap, as in niy, 4. 
Muse, meditate the thankless, 4. 
Music of the Union, keep step 
to, 13. 

Nature's sternest painter, 8. 

New World, redress the balance 

of the Old, 11. 
Nightingale, the wakeful, 2. 
Nuptial bower, 3. 

Oar. the light drip of, 7. 
Odours from the spicy shrub, 3. 
One God, one law, 8. 

Pent in populous city, 3. 
Plighted clouds, play i' the, 4. 
Power behind the throne, 14. 
Prayer the soul's sincere desire, 10. 
Pyramids, doting with age, 12. 

Rebellion to tyrants, etc., 13. 
Imputation, written out of, 12. 
Rose, be a bud again, 8. 
Rottenness, the firmament is, 4. 

Sabean odours, 2. 
Sat like a cormorant, 2. 
Serbonian bog, 2. 
Shake the Raintship of an anchor- 
ite, 6. 
Shapes, will not depart, 6. 
Shed their selectest influence, 3. 
Ship of State, sail on ! 9. 



Shopkeepers, nation of, 14. 

Sighed to many, loved but one, 6 

Silence was pleased, 2. 

Small service, true service, 6. 

So much to do, so little done, 8. 

Sober certainty of waking bliss, 4. 

Sober second thought of the peo- 
ple, 12. 

Soul, I built a lordly pleasure- 
house, 8. 

Sovereigns, dead but sceptred, 7. 

Sport with Amaryllis in the shade, 
4. 

Star that ushers in the even, 1. 

Streaming splendor through the 
sky, 10. 

Stubble, earth's base built on, 4. 

Such joy ambition finds, 2. 

Surgit amari aliquid, 6. 

Suspect, beauty's ornament, 1. 

Tangles of Neaera's hair, 4. 

Tear, the small orb of, 1. 

Tendance, touched by her fair. 3. 

Teneriff or Atlas, 2. 

Thought him still speaking, 3. 

Thought, thou wert a beautiful, 7 

Tire of all creation, 13. 

Too fair to worship, too divine to 
love, 10. 

Treason doth never prosper, 5. 

Trust in God, and keep your pow- 
der dry, 14. 

Truth decorate the verse, 8. 

Unsunned heaps of treasure, 4. 

Venom, bubbling, 6. 
Vine, the gaddiug, 4. 

Waking bliss, sober certainty of, 

4. 
Weed on Ocean's foam, 7. 
Wisdom, the prime 3. 
Woman's nay doth stand for 

naught, 1. 
Work goes bravely on, 5. 
Worship of the great of old, 7. 









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